Artificial intelligence

Deep Learning at 15 Petaflops from Intel and partners

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An Arxiv paper, presents the first, 15-PetaFLOP Deep Learning system for solving scientific pattern classification problems on contemporary HPC architectures. Intel researchers and parters developed supervised convolutional architectures for discriminating signals in high-energy physics data as well as semi-supervised architectures for localizing and classifying extreme weather in climate data. Our Intelcaffe based implementation obtains ∼2TFLOP/s …

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Ray Kurzweil reviews History of Neural Nets

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Ray Kurzweil reviewed the history of Neural Nets. Ray knew the both of the two leaders of the competing Artificial intelligence factions (Symbolic vs. Connectionist) in the 1960s. The connectionists were supporting neural networks. They could only handle single layer neural networks and had limited solution capacity. A mathematic proof by Minski in the Symbolic …

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Artificial Intelligence Eats the World #gusummit2017

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Singularity University Global Summit 2017 has an AI panel with Peter Diamandis, Jeremy Howard (founding research Fast.ai) and Vivienne Ming (co-founder manager partner Socos). Vivienne Mings rates AI as a top tool for solving world problems. Jeremy notes that great positive and great negative situations can both exist at the same time in the world. …

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Peter Diamandis – Driver of Accelerating Change #gusummit

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Growth of exponential technologies will accelerate furrhter. Synthetic biology robotics 3D printing Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Artificial Reality ===> Unexpected convergence and consequences Mosaic was an interface moment Apple App store was an interface moment Diamandis teachs and track exponential technologies using my “6 D’s” approach, looking for “user interface moments. User interface moments are …

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China pushing for AI, railgun and technological dominance

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The South China Morning Post reports that China’s military has set up a new department modeled on DARPA to develop state-of-the-art weapons such as stealth ­aircraft and electromagnetic ­cannons. The Scientific Research Steering Committee was set up early this year, according to a documentary aired on state broadcaster CCTV that revealed the new department for …

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Elon Musk and Zuckerberg argue over Artificial Intelligence

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Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of Artificial Intelligence is limited. Elon Musk has warned that there needed to be regulation on AI development before it’s too late. “I keep sounding the alarm bell, but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react, because it seems so …

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Commercial AI will start sorting through ISIS intelligence data within 6 months

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Within six months the US military will start using commercial AI algorithms to sort through its masses of intelligence data on the Islamic State. “We will put an algorithm into a combat zone before the end of this calendar year, and the only way to do that is with commercial partners,” said Col. Drew Cukor. …

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Update on the race to the Exaflop supercomputer

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Six leading US technology companies will receive $258 million in funding from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as part of its new PathForward program. This money is to accelerate the research necessary to deploy the nation’s first exascale supercomputers in about 2021. The $258 million in funding will be allocated over a …

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Cambrian Explosion of robots, drones and automation

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The current most advanced robot cook is the hamburger maker developed by Momentum Machines, a startup funded by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. It takes in raw meat, buns, condiments, sauces, and seasonings, and converts these into finished, bagged burgers at rates as high as 400 per hour. The machine does much of its own food …

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Roadmap to human cortex scale neuromorphic hardware systems using analog technology

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It should be possible to build a silicon version of the human cerebral cortex with the transistor technology that was in production in 2013. The resulting machine would take up less than a cubic meter of space and consume less than 100 watts, not too far from the human brain. This article is summarizing the …

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