AI-driven Diagnostics for Network of Boston-based Healthcare Providers
The Center for Clinical Data Science (CCDS), Boston, is at the confluence of major technology trends driving the healthcare industry: AI-based diagnostics of large volumes of medical images, shared ...Full Article
Putin: Who Controls AI ‘Will Be Ruler of the World’
AI alarmism took on a geopolitical cast today as Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that whoever is first to build breakthrough artificial intelligence technology will have world domination. According ...Full Article
Intel Debuts Myriad X Vision Processing Unit for Neural Net Inferencing
Intel today introduced the Movidius Myriad X Vision Processing Unit (VPU) which Intel is calling the first vision processing system-on-a-chip (SoC) with a dedicated neural compute engine to accelerate ...Full Article
Microsoft, Intel Unveil FPGA-driven ‘Real-Time AI’ in Azure
We know about the seeming light-speed processing power of FPGAs and the natural fit they pose for data-dense AI workloads. But we also know that FPGAs present usability and ...Full Article
Microsoft Bolsters Azure With Cloud HPC Deal
Microsoft has acquired cloud computing software vendor Cycle Computing in a move designed to bring orchestration tools along with high-end computing access capabilities to the cloud. Terms of the ...Full Article
‘IoT for Puppies’ and AI Help Identify Guide Dog Trainees with the Right Stuff
The dog has been called our "first friend," the bond between dogs and people extends to our pre-history, and one of the most revered forms of that bond is ...Full Article
IBM Scales AI with Distributed Deep Learning
IBM announced today an enhancement to its PowerAI software platform aimed at scaling AI models on today’s fastest GPUs. Scaling to 256 GPUs with its new distributed deep learning ...Full Article
Airlines Embracing AI Take Wing, AI Index Finds
Stock prices of airline companies – starting with Southwest and Hawaiian airlines – that have embraced AI look like the flight path of a plane just after take-off: steady ...Full Article
Advice to AI Startups: Lift Veil on Algorithms
The hardheaded folks who advise investors on what technologies show promise and which are mostly smoke and mirrors are beginning to weigh in on much-hyped approaches such as machine ...Full Article
Regulate AI? Musk-Zuckerberg Stand Astride the Divide
The future of AI – heck, the future of human civilization – is the hot tech industry topic this week, not only for the topic itself but for who’s ...Full Article
