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Sense and compute are the electronic eyes and ears that will be the ultimate power behind automating menial work and encouraging humans to cultivate their creativity.
These new capabilities for machines will depend on the best and brightest talent, and investors who are building and financing companies aiming to deliver the AI chips destined to be the neurons and synapses of robotic brains.
Like any other Herculean task, this one is expected to come with big rewards. And it will bring with it big promises, outrageous claims and suspect results. Right now, it's still the Wild West when it comes to measuring AI chips up against each other.
[...] A metric that gets thrown around frequently is TOPS, or trillions of operations per second, to measure performance. TOPS/W, or trillions of operations per second per Watt, is used to measure energy efficiency. These metrics are as ambiguous as they sound.
What are the operations being performed on? What's an operation? Under what circumstances are these operations being performed? How does the timing by which you schedule these operations impact the function you are trying to perform? Is your chip equipped with the expensive memory it needs to maintain performance when running "real-world" models? Phrased differently, do these chips actually deliver these performance numbers in the intended application?
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/19/powering-the-brains-of-tomorrows-intelligent-machines/
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 26 2019, @01:56PM (9 children)
It's a nice thought but it leaves out the vast majority of humans who have little to no notable creativity. If they had any to speak of, they wouldn't worry about their jobs being automated away in the first place. They'd think up a solution for themselves and make it happen.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 26 2019, @02:34PM (8 children)
Hey, man, why so judgemental? After a few years of smoking weed while binge-watching Netflix, people can change. Besides, it takes all kinds - and if the vast majority didn't have couch potato tendencies, we'd already be in serious trouble with this many people on the planet.
Just imagine a country with 100 million Elon Musks.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @03:05PM (3 children)
> ... a country with 100 million Elon Musks.
Dystopia for sure! Among other problems, the Musk clones would have to compete with each other for government money to support their grand plans.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday July 26 2019, @03:43PM (2 children)
Government money? From my perspective, Musk has been conning the big money fund and investment fund managers.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @04:38PM
I'm from western NY State, near the big Tesla solar cell / solar-roof-tile plant in Buffalo -- built for Musk with something approaching $1B of NY State money. Currently it's not doing very well, the Tesla residential solar business has been bad for the last year or so. And the local news says they are now testing the 3rd generation of the solar roof tiles, with no production in sight.
Yes, he's also good at raising private money, but that doesn't come out of my tax dollars!
(Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Friday July 26 2019, @05:51PM
Musk knows how to work both the public and private financial sectors. Wish it were easier to get him out of my 401k.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday July 26 2019, @03:37PM (1 child)
"Just imagine a country with 100 million Elon Musks."
Yack!! You did that to me before I'd finished my first cup of coffee. Though perhaps Musk is to be somewhat preferred over the kind of people who use their creative energy figuring how to con the marks out of their hard earned money in order to buy bigger yachts, play more rounds of golf in exotic locations and build huge phallic symbols in over crowded cities (yeah, Salesforce , I'm talking to you)
And while we're on the subject of marketing, that's all this yapping about "Artificial Intelligence" is.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday July 26 2019, @04:05PM
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Rupert Pupnick on Friday July 26 2019, @05:53PM (1 child)
Not only that, but who is going to buy up all that creative output? You NEED couch potatoes in today’s economy.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 27 2019, @02:09AM
Nah, nobody buys more music than musicians.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.