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AI is Key to China Infrastructure Plan, as is AI Talent
China’s latest set of technology goals for the next decade have been assimilated into an initiative launched this spring under the rubric, “new infrastructure.” Collectively, the aspirational blueprint includes ...Full Article
ISC 2020: Hoefler’s Virtual Tour of ML Trends in 9 Slides
The ISC20 experience this year via livestreaming and pre-recordings is interesting and perhaps a bit odd. That said presenters’ efforts to condense their comments makes for economic use of ...Full Article
Nvidia Unveils AI Supercomputer, Launches A100 PCIe Cards
Nvidia unveiled its Selene AI supercomputer today in tandem with the updated listing of world’s fastest computers. Nvidia also introduced the PCIe form factor of the Ampere-based A100 GPU. ...Full Article
How Aligning AI Project Teams Can Ensure AI Success
While AI deployments are picking up steam, challenges to success, both technical and cultural, abound. One of the biggest challenges is the lack of alignment among the three pillars ...Full Article
Breaking Down Dark Data Barriers in Asset-Intensive Industries
The phrase “Dark Data” – referring to data that is unknown or untapped – has been bantered around technology conferences for years. Many industries are well on their way ...Full Article
AI Trust Remains an Issue in the Life Sciences
The rise of AI – machine and deep learning – in life sciences has stirred the same excitement and skepticism as in other fields of scientific research. AI is ...Full Article
New Chip Approaches Seek to Keep Up with AI
Exploding data sets and complex software have made it harder for single-purpose platforms like ASICs to keep up with the growing demands of enterprise datacenters. Heavy investments in chip ...Full Article
Deep Learning Boosts Call Center Speech Recognition During the COVID-19 Crisis
A business operation hard hit by COVID-19 is the call center. Industries ranging from airlines to retailers to financial institutions have been bombarded with calls—forcing them to put customers ...Full Article
COVID-19 Roundup: Neural Nets Track Readmissions; ML Predicts Spread; Analyzing Brands’ Foot Traffic – & More
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 ...Full Article
Microsoft’s AI Supercomputer on Azure: ‘Combinations of Perceptual Domains’
Microsoft has unveiled a supercomputing monster – among the world’s five most powerful, according to the company – aimed at what is known in scientific and philosophical circles as ...Full Article