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NVIDIA Hopes To Sell More Chips By Bringing AI Programming To the Masses

Posted by Soulskill on from the infinite-monkeys-can-create-the-singularity dept.

jfruh writes: Artificial intelligence typically requires heavy computing power, which can only help manufacturers of specialized chip manufacturers like NVIDIA. That's why the company is pushing its Digits software, which helps users design and experiment with neural networks. Version 2 of digits moves out of the command line and comes with a GUI interface in an attempt to move interest beyond the current academic market; it also makes programming for multichip configurations possible.

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  1. Re:Chips! by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Crunch all you want, we'll make more. Sounds artificially intelligent.

    I am not sure if their strategy will work. Training a neural net requires massive compute resources, usually in the form of GPUs. But once the NN is trained, it doesn't require much computing to use it. For instance, a Go playing NN took 5 days to train, running on high end GPUs, but once trained, could consistently beat Gnu Go (which can consistently beat me) while using far less computing time.