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Robots on the road
Just heard that California is about to start working on formal regulations for robot cars to travel their roads which is the second state to regulate these autonomous machines, the first was Nevada....
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IBM’s next generation, TrueNorth neuromorphic chip
Ok, I admit it, besides being a storage nut I also have an enduring interest in AI. And as the technology of more sophisticated neuromorphic chips starts to emerge it seems to me to herald a whole new...
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Protest intensity, world news database and big data – chart of the month
Read an article the other day on the analysis of the Arab Spring (Did the Arab Spring really spark a wave of global protests, in Foreign Policy) using a Google Ideas sponsored project, the GDELT...
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Existential threats
Not sure why but lately I have been hearing a lot about existential events. These are events that threaten the existence of humanity itself. Massive Solar Storm A couple of days ago I read about the...
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At Scale conference keynote, Facebook video experience re-engineered
The At Scale conference happened this past week in LA. Jay Parikh, Global Head of Engineering and Infrastructure at Facebook, kicked off the conference by talking about how Facebook is attempting to...
View ArticleTPU and hardware vs. software innovation (round 3)
At Google IO conference this week, they revealed (see Google supercharges machine learning tasks …) that they had been designing and operating their own processor chips in order to optimize machine...
View ArticleHitachi and the coming IoT gold rush
Earlier this week I attended Hitachi Summit 2016 along with a number of other analysts and Hitachi executives where Hitachi discussed their current and ongoing focus on the IoT (Internet of Things)...
View ArticleMixed progress on self-driving cars
Read an article the other day on the progress in self-driving cars in NewsAtlas (DMV reports self-driving cars are learning — fast). More details are available from their source (CA [California] DMV...
View ArticleThe fragility of public cloud IT
I have been reading AntiFragile again (by Nassim Taleb). And although he would probably disagree with my use of his concepts, it appears to me that IT is becoming more fragile, not less. For example,...
View ArticleAI’s Image recognition success feeds sound recognition improvements
I must do reCAPTCHA at least a dozen times a week for various websites I use. It’s become a real pain. And the fact that I know that what I am doing is helping some AI image recognition program do a...
View ArticleGoogle releases new Cloud TPU & Machine Learning supercomputer in the cloud
Last year about this time Google released their 1st generation TPU chip to the world (see my TPU and HW vs. SW … post for more info). This year they are releasing a new version of their hardware called...
View ArticleOld world AI, Checkers, and The Champion
Read an article in The Atlantic this week (How checkers was solved) on Jonathan Schaeffer, the man who solved checkers, and his quest to beat Marion Tinsley, The Champion. But first some personal...
View ArticleIndustrial revolutions, deep learning & NVIDIA’s 3U AI super computer @ FMS 2017
I was at Flash Memory Summit this past week and besides the fire on the exhibit floor, there was a interesting keynote by Andy Steinbach, PhD from NVIDIA on “Deep Learning: Extracting Maximum Knowledge...
View ArticleCompressing information through the information bottleneck during deep learning
Read an article in Quanta Magazine (New theory cracks open the black box of deep learning) about a talk (see 18: Information Theory of Deep Learning, YouTube video) done a month or so ago given by...
View ArticleGPU growth and the compute changeover
Attended SC17 last month in Denver and Nvidia had almost as big a presence as Intel. Their VR display was very nice as compared to some of the others at the show. GPU past GPU’s were originally...
View ArticleAI reaches a crossroads
There’s been a lot of talk on the extendability of current AI this past week and it appears that while we may have a good deal of runway left on the machine learning/deep learning/pattern recognition,...
View ArticleA new way to compute
I read an article the other day on using using random pulses rather than digital numbers to compute with, see Computing with random pulses promises to simplify circuitry and save power, in IEEE...
View ArticleMIT’s new Navion chip for better Nano drone navigation
Read an article this week in Science Daily (Chip upgrade help’s bee-sized drones navigate) about a recent chip created by MIT, called Navion, that reduces size and power consumption for electronics...
View ArticleAI processing at the edge
Read a couple of articles over the past few weeks (TechCrunch: Google is making a fast, specialized TPU chip for edge devices … and IEEE Spectrum: Two startups use processing in flash for AI at the...
View ArticleData banks, data deposits & data withdrawals in the data economy – part 1
Read an interesting article this week in The Atlantic, Why Technology Favors Tyranny by Yuvai Noah Harari, about the inevitable future of technology and how the use of data will drive it. At the end of...
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