Deep Learning Software vs. Hardware: NVIDIA releases TensorRT 7 inference software, Intel acquires Habana Labs
NVIDIA's software library latest release brings significant performance improvements, which NVIDIA says enable conversational AI. But Intel is stepping up its game too, by acquiring Habana Labs, an AI chip startup that promises top performance on the hardware level.
Read More →Why autonomous vehicles will rely on edge computing and not the cloud
When driving a vehicle, milliseconds matter. Autonomous vehicles are no different, even though it may be your AI that drives them. AI = data + compute, and you want your compute to be as close to your data as possible. Enter edge computing.
Read More →Unifying cloud storage and data warehouses: Delta Lake project hosted by the Linux Foundation
A mix of open source foundations and commercial adoption, the strategy adopted by Databricks for Delta Lake could set Delta Lake on its way to becoming a standard for storing data on the cloud
Read More →NVIDIA’s AI advance: Natural language processing gets faster and better all the time
Yesterday NVIDIA announced record-breaking developments in machine learning for natural language processing. How and why did it do this, and what does it mean for the world at large?
Read More →Forget silicon – SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases
A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data as something too futuristic to have any practical value. Today, you can extend PostgreSQL with the right software and bio-chemical modules, and run SQL on DNA.
Read More →Advancing human exploration: Is space the final frontier, and how can data and AI get us there?
Fifty years after the moon landing, it's not just NASA working on what many consider the final frontier for humanity: space travel. NASA, however, is special, and one of the reasons is that data is at the heart of what it does.
Read More →The state of AI in 2019: Breakthroughs in machine learning, natural language processing, games, and knowledge graphs
A tour de force on progress in AI, by some of the world's leading experts and venture capitalists.
Read More →Salesforce open sources research to advance state of the art in AI for common sense reasoning
Deep learning is great for many applications, but common sense reasoning is not one of them. New research from Salesforce promises to alleviate this, advancing previous results by a considerable margin.
Read More →Getting your corporate data ready for prescriptive analytics: data quantity and quality in equal measures
Good news: there's nothing special about getting your data ready for prescriptive analytics. Bad news: you need to do what's needed to get your data ready for any type of analytics – and that's hard work.
Read More →A guide for prescriptive analytics: The art and science of choosing and applying the right techniques
Prescriptive analytics is nothing short of automating your business. But there's lots of hard work, and many stages you need to go through before you get there.
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