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“Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft today announced that they will create a non-profit organization that will work to advance public understanding of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) and formulate best practices on the challenges and opportunities within the field …
“There are hundreds of new cancer drugs in development and new research published minute to minute, helping doctors treat patients with personalized combinations that target the specific building blocks of their disease. The problem is there’s too much to …
“Nissan Motor Co Ltd started to consider designing cars by using artificial intelligence (AI). “We have once used AI to design a car,” said Tetsurou Ueda of Nissan Research Center at a symposium that took place in Tokyo Aug 31 …
News IBM Linux Servers Designed to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Advanced Analytics
“IBM today revealed a series of new servers designed to help propel cognitive workloads and to drive greater data center efficiency. Featuring a new chip, the Linux-based lineup incorporates innovations from the OpenPOWER community that deliver higher levels of performance …
“Taking a cue from some of its U.S. peers like Google, Chinese Internet search giant Baidu has decided to open source its deep learning platform. The company claims that the platform, code-named PaddlePaddle after PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning, will …
“IBM’s TrueNorth “cognitive chip” built to function like the human brain has proved itself a compelling resource for digital image processing. Samsung took the 4,096 cores, one million neurons and 256 million synapses of the TrueNorth chip and …
“From smartphone assistants to image recognition and translation, machine learning already helps us in our everyday lives. But it can also help us to tackle some of the world’s most challenging physical problems — such as energy consumption. Large-scale commercial …
News KnuEdge Accelerates Neural Computing With Introduction of KNUPATH LambdaFabric Processor Technology
“KnuEdge™ Inc., a neural technology innovation company that launched today, introduced its KNUPATH™ LambdaFabric™ processor technology enabling ground-breaking scalability, latency and workload performance in next-generation data centers. With a fundamentally different architecture than legacy products, KNUPATH can operate alone or …
“Machine learning provides the underlying oomph to many of Google’s most-loved applications. In fact, more than 100 teams are currently using machine learning at Google today, from Street View, to Inbox Smart Reply, to voice search. But one thing …
News Sony Joins Forces with Cogitai to Conduct Research and Development for the Next Wave of Artificial Intelligence
“Sony Corporation today announced that it has teamed with Cogitai, an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up focused on next generation technologies. Specifically, Sony has invested in Cogitai and the two companies plan to collaborate towards the development of novel AI technologies …
“Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced it will receive a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing platform for deep learning developed by (link is external)IBM Research (link is external). Based on a breakthrough neurosynaptic computer chip called IBM TrueNorth, the scalable …
“Games are a great testing ground for developing smarter, more flexible algorithms that have the ability to tackle problems in ways similar to humans. Creating programs that are able to play games better than the best humans has a long …