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posted by martyb on Sunday April 29 2018, @01:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the robots-processed-this-story dept.

They probably weren’t inspired by [Jeff Dunham’s] jalapeno on a stick, but Intel have created the Movidius neural compute stick which is in effect a neural network in a USB stick form factor. They don’t rely on the cloud, they require no fan, and you can get one for well under $100.

SiliconAngle has more:

What distinguishes AI systems on a chip from traditional mobile processors is that they come with specialized neural-network processors, such as graphics processing units or GPUs, tensor processing units or TPUs, and field programming gate arrays or FPGAs. These AI-optimized chips offload neural-network processing from the device’s central processing unit chip, enabling more local autonomous AI processing

Are we about to see another computing revolution and what will the technological and sociopolitical landscape look like after this?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @12:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @12:23AM (#673528)

    Wake me up when you can tell an AI to 'learn chess' and it does. Then turn around and say 'hey drive my car ' and it figures out how to do that. Then we can say we have AI. Maybe then I will get a bit worried.

    What we have now are optimizing linear regression finding trees. Basically try 'interesting' stuff with a weighting.

    This is good example of what we are doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9c-_neaxeU [youtube.com] This is basically a stripped down simplified crash course on what we are doing at scale.

    Make no mistake this sort of optimization finding is very interesting and very useful. But not the AI we 'want'.