Why is HPC (high performance computing) speeding up machine learning and deep learning research? Experiments determined the right architecture for speech recognition. A lot of AI progress is driven by experimentation. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked …
AI is making rapid progress. To help you stay on the leading edge, Andrew Ng recording a few videos to share the latest trends. Andrew Yan-Tak Ng is Chief Scientist at Baidu Research in Silicon Valley. In addition, he is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical Engineering …
Eric Drexler discusses the progress in Artificial Intelligence and Deep learning a few years ago a Deep Learning network was 5 layers deep, In 2014, the Google Image categorization network was 22 layers deep In 2015, a new approach to information flow enables deep learning networks 200 layers deep A specialized AI can be used …
Three hybrid airship projects are currently attracting the most attention: the Airlander 10, which just launched this month, in England; Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1; and Pasternak’s Aeroscraft Pasternak’s Aeroscraft ML866, ML868 and ML86X Pasternak’s surveillance-airship business is worth millions, but wealth was never his goal. “It’s all about the cargo airship,” he said. His cargo prototype, …
Russia is developing unmanned underwater vehicles for deployment by fifth-generation submarines. New fifth generation nuclear submarines are expected to have advanced stealth, noise-reduction, automated reconnaissance and warning systems, Russian Navy’s Commander-in-Chief Adm. Viktor Chirkov said last fall. “[Unmanned submarine drones] will be released from the [main] submarine for environmental monitoring using different hardware or to …
Japan has opened talks with Western defense contractors—including Lockheed Martin and Boeing—to develop a next-generation air superiority fighter. The new Japanese aircraft could be based in part on the technologies being matured on Mitsubishi’s X-2 ATD-X stealth fighter concept demonstrator. The X-2 prototype is set to take to the skies for the first time in …
Army leaders want to build a nano drone that weighs less than a pound with the entire unmanned system not weighing more than three pounds, according to a Request for Information released on FBO.gov on March 1. The Army is calling its nano drone efforts, the Soldier Borne Sensors (SBS) program with Product Manager Soldier …
Google Cloud Machine Learning provides modern machine learning services, with pre-trained models and a platform to generate your own tailored models. The neural net-based ML platform has better training performance and increased accuracy compared to other large scale deep learning systems. Major Google applications use Cloud Machine Learning, including Photos (image search), the Google app …
Today, on the A52 autobahn near Düsseldorf, Daimler Trucks presented an impressive example of the possibilities opened up by the digital connection of trucks: Three WiFi-connected, autonomously driving trucks operated on the autobahn with authorisation for public traffic as a so-called platoon. Such a combination can reduce fuel consumption by up to seven percent and …
In a breakthrough for energy-efficient computing, UC Berkeley engineers have shown for the first time that magnetic chips can actually operate at the lowest fundamental energy dissipation theoretically possible under the laws of thermodynamics. This means that dramatic reductions in power consumption are possible — down to as little as one-millionth the amount of energy …
A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change. The researchers focused on a hybrid …