Tag: deep learning
The VAST Potential for Hosting GenAI Workloads, Data
There is big data, and then there is VAST Data, which has emerged as one of the world’s hottest tech firms over the past year. The company, which started out as developer of flash storage arrays, has morphed into a ful Read more…
MIT Researchers Leverage AI To Identify Antibiotic That Can Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria
As bacteria continue to evolve to withstand the effects of antibiotics, it has rendered bacterial infections more challenging to treat. The issue of “antibiotic resistance” has already become a critical health issue. Read more…
Europe Moves Forward with AI Regulation
European lawmakers today voted overwhelmingly in favor of the landmark AI regulation known as the EU AI Act. While the act does not yet have the force of law, the lopsided vote indicates it soon will in the European Unio Read more…
AI Threat ‘Like Nuclear Weapons,’ Hinton Says
The rise of artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humans and is on par with the use of nuclear weapons, according to more than a third of AI researchers polled in a recent Stanford study as well as Geoff Read more…
Google Claims Its TPU v4 Outperforms Nvidia A100
A new scientific paper from Google details the performance of its Cloud TPU v4 supercomputing platform, claiming it provides exascale performance for machine learning with boosted efficiency. The authors of the resear Read more…
New PyTorch 2.0 Compiler Promises Big Speedup for AI Developers
Machine learning and AI developers are eager to get their hands on PyTorch 2.0, which was unveiled in late 2022 and is due to become available this month. Among the features greeting eager ML developers is a compiler as Read more…
Peak:AIO Cranks the Storage Throughput for Affordable AI Data Serving
Organizations that want to keep their pricey GPUs fed with data for machine learning training purposes but don’t want to break the bank with a big parallel file system installation may be interested in a fast new NFS-b Read more…
Microsoft Seeks $10B Investment in OpenAI: Report
Microsoft, which is already invested in OpenAI to the tune of $1 billion and enjoys an exclusive partnership with it to train its AI models, reportedly is looking to invest $10 billion in the company following the breako Read more…
AI Expected to Make Big Splash at CES 2023
Artificial intelligence technologies like DALL-E and ChatGPT made numerous headlines in 2022. That trend is expected to continue the first week of 2023 at the Consumer Electronics Show, which officially kicks off with a Read more…
Why AI Alone Won’t Solve Drug Discovery
Verseon is an AI-powered drug company--in theory, anyway. The Bay Area startup does use machine learning to help predict which combination of proteins and drug-like molecules will yield novel compounds to test in the lab Read more…
Data Is Everywhere, But Harvest Your Own for Peak AI Performance
The rapid proliferation of data marketplaces has made it easy for organizations to get their hands on third-party data. And pre-trained deep learning models are also readily available on the Internet. But just as plastic Read more…
Artificial Intelligence in AP Automation – A Look at What Really Works, and What Doesn’t
How the term "artificial intelligence" is defined and whether there can even be a canonical definition at all is currently a matter of debate in information technology, neuroscience, philosophy, and linguistics. Commonly Read more…
AI That Works on Behalf of Workers
Individuals have grown used to the existence of invasive data collection and processing practices that benefit businesses but offer little to no value to them at the end of the day. But what if employees could turn the A Read more…
Computer Vision Platform Datagen Raises $50M Series B
Datagen, a firm specializing in computer vision artificial intelligence, announced it has raised $50 million in a Series B round bringing its total financing to $70 million. Computer vision (CV) has quickly become ubi Read more…
Nvidia CEO Touts a ‘Million X’ Speedup in AI
A decade ago, Google talked about “thinking in 10x.” Whether it’s Moore’s Law or the current rate of inflation, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang has one-upped his fellow Silicon Valley technologists by thinking in mil Read more…
Home Depot Finds DIY Success with Vector Search
Like all big companies, Home Depot has a list of IT projects that it wants to tackle. When the COVID pandemic hit two years ago and ecommerce activity surged, it accelerated one of them in particular: the development of Read more…
Databricks Launches Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Databricks has announced the launch of its new lakehouse platform, the Databricks Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences. According to the company's press release, Databricks Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Scie Read more…
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Tackles Power Grid Failures with AI
Next time your power stays on during a severe weather event, you may have a machine learning model to thank. Researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab are using artificial intelligence to solve power grid failures. The Read more…
Natural Language Processing: The Next Frontier in AI for the Enterprise
The power and practicality of artificial intelligence is largely undisputed. However, one of its longest-standing difficulties continues to be human language. A misspelled or misused word can frustratingly turn a chatbot Read more…