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by rcareaga
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9/17/17 9:17:46 AM
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New NYT on dedicated chips for AI apps
Interesting piece, although I could wish it had gone a bit deeper into the weeds (might have required a tech-savvier reporter). One researcher predicts that the new approach (offloading functions at present handled by CPUs to ancillary specialized chips) will be to AI as the “Cambrian explosion” was to biology.

The two photographs of Google’s “Tensor Processing Unit” resemble an architect’s model for a big public housing project. Pruitt-Intel, anyone?

cordially,
Post #420,384
by Another Scott
9/17/17 10:08:14 AM
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New Relatedly...
Post #420,386
by Ashton
9/17/17 4:55:31 PM
9/17/17 4:55:31 PM
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New Common denominator of these two 'essays' ?
Post #420,387
by Ashton
9/17/17 4:58:35 PM
9/17/17 4:58:35 PM
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New I wot:
Æ ... maybe our finest minimalist-Harbinger of the-Blindingly-Obvious!?
(but only: once you've been jarred-Awake!! momentarily.. so as actually To See what you just sorta ~ viewed.)

No?
Post #420,389
by a6l6e6x
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9/17/17 6:57:26 PM
9/17/17 6:57:26 PM
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New Did you see the new Apple iPhone processor?
The A11 chip:

A11 Bionic chip with 64-bit architecture
Neural Engine
Embedded M11 motion coprocessor
Alex

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- Isaac Asimov
Post #420,393
by boxley
9/17/17 8:15:35 PM
9/17/17 8:15:35 PM
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New that concept has been around a looonnnggg time, here, have a buncha ones and zeros come back
and tell me whether I need a one or a zero.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
     NYT on dedicated chips for AI apps - (rcareaga) - (5) - Sept. 17, 2017, 09:17:46 AM EDT
         Relatedly... - (Another Scott) - Sept. 17, 2017, 10:08:14 AM EDT
         Common denominator of these two 'essays' ? - (Ashton) - (1) - Sept. 17, 2017, 04:55:31 PM EDT
             I wot: - (Ashton) - Sept. 17, 2017, 04:58:35 PM EDT
         Did you see the new Apple iPhone processor? - (a6l6e6x) - Sept. 17, 2017, 06:57:26 PM EDT
         that concept has been around a looonnnggg time, here, have a buncha ones and zeros come back - (boxley) - Sept. 17, 2017, 08:15:35 PM EDT

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