Author Archives: Oliver Peckham
Oliver Peckham
OpenAI’s GPT-3 Language Generator Is Impressive, but Don’t Hold Your Breath for Skynet
July 22nd, 2020
Just a couple of months after releasing a paper describing GPT-3, AI development and deployment company OpenAI has begun testing its novel, AI-powered language generator with a select group of users through a private beta – and many have ...
Graphcore Introduces Next-Gen Intelligence Processing Unit for AI Workloads
July 15th, 2020
British hardware designer Graphcore, which emerged from stealth in 2016 to launch its first-generation Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), has announced its next-generation IPU platform: the IPU-Machine M2000. With the new M2000, Graphcore promises “greater processing power, more memory and ...
Researchers Use Public Camera Footage to Assess Social Distancing Around the World
July 11th, 2020
Across the world, measures like social distancing and mask-wearing continue to be encouraged in efforts to stem the spread of COVID-19. Individuals’ actual, real-world behavior, however, varies wildly from region to region, and rates of COVID-19 infection have fluctuated ...
Xilinx Announces First Adaptive Computing Challenge
July 8th, 2020
A new contest is challenging the computing world. Xilinx has announced the first Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge, a competition that will task developers and startups with finding creative workload acceleration solutions. Xilinx is running the Adaptive Computing Challenge in ...
C3.ai’s COVID-19 Awardees Are an Inflection Point for Pandemic Research
June 24th, 2020
“The probability of something good not coming out of this is zero,” said Tom Siebel, CEO of enterprise AI software provider C3.ai, which has announced the winners of its awards for COVID-19 research through the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute ...
AWS Graviton2 Arm-Based EC2 Instances Now Available
June 12th, 2020
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of sixth-generation Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. The new instances are available starting today in a variety of sizes across four regions alongside ...
COVID-19 Roundup: Neural Nets Track Readmissions; ML Predicts Spread; Analyzing Brands’ Foot Traffic – & More
May 26th, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, big data and AI have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here, we collect the latest news in how big data is fighting ...
AMD’s Q1 Sets Records and Meets Expectations, but COVID-19 Looms
April 29th, 2020
AMD has reported its Q1 2020 revenue, slightly outperforming analyst expectations and dodging the first financial blows of COVID-19 to deliver $1.79 billion – a whopping 40 percent year-over-year growth in revenue, and a record for first-quarter earnings. The ...
COVID-19 Update: Apple Frees Mobility Data, MIT Predictive ML, IBM Data Challenge, Rolls-Royce & More
April 22nd, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, AI and big data have emerged as crucial tools for everything from diagnosis and epidemiology to therapeutic and vaccine development. Here's a collection of news on how AI and related technology is ...
What’s New in Computing vs. COVID-19: Groceries, Smartphones, Competitions & More
April 14th, 2020
Artificial intelligence, big data and high performance computing are crucial tools in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, researchers, corporations and governments are devoting computing resources to this global crisis. This column collects the biggest news ...
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