Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said that deep-learning
artificial intelligence has become a new computing platform, and the
company is dealing with hundreds of startups in the space that plan to
take advantage of the platform.
Speaking at the GPUTech conference in San Jose, California, Huang
noted that $5 billion was invested last year in A.I. startups, and there
are probably a thousand companies working on the technology for
applications ranging from face recognition to self-driving cars.
“Deep learning is not an industry,” he said. “Deep learning is going
to be in every industry. Deep learning is going to be in every
application.”
The computational complexity of Go is nearly infinite. But Google’s Alpha Go A.I. was able to beat the best human Go player. It runs on 200 graphics processing units (GPUs).
“It’s a pretty amazing achievement,” he said. “Every single year, we
do more and more in this area. We think this will change computing. Deep
learning is that significant. It’s a new platform. After working on
this for five years, it is our fastest-growing business.”
Deep learning has one general algorithm with many different versions.
The team at Baidu was able to deconstruct both English and Chinese with
the same algorithm. Now the algorithm can be used with massive amounts
of data and huge amounts of processing power to yield big benefits in
things like computer vision.
“It started in research and moved to computer platform providers,” he
said. “They are incorporating it into frameworks and engines. These are
the tools of modern network design, the authoring tools for neural
networks.”
Nvidia’s CUDA programming language allows these software frameworks and cloud platforms to tap the power of GPU chips.
“Industry after industry is taking advantage of deep learning,” Huang
said. “It’s like Thor’s Hammer that fell from the sky. It’s relatively
easy to apply.”
http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/05/nvidia-is-interacting-with-hundreds-of-deep-learning-startups/
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