Opinion Buzz words and the facts

Manufacturers - or vendors as I prefer to call them -  have touted artificial intelligence (AI) almost since the beginning of the dawn of the computer. Which was 70 or 80 years ago, depending on how you're counting things.

Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD vying for customers in AI-fueled markets

Major component manufacturers in the artificial intelligence (AI) market have all increased their efforts to develop more aggressive processors for AI-fueled markets in 2017 including autonomous vehicles, enterprise drones, medical care, smart factories, image recognition, and general neural network research and development.

Using inferencing, deep neural networks can now scale to new, challenging data sets

The applications of artificial intelligence in computer graphics have long been a focus point for Nvidia and other GPU companies in Silicon Valley. But now, the company has decided to bring advancements in deep learning to the world of game development with uses ranging from more believable in-game agents, and complex physics simulations through asynchronous rendering techniques.

Focusing on transportation sector in Taiwan

Acer is expected to break into new territory in the fields of artificial intelligence, deep learning in 2017 and has begun talking with several potential clients about shipping its first in-house robotics devices, according to company CEO Jason Chen.

Begins focus on improving synthetic training models

Earlier this month, Apple’s director of AI Research Russ Salakhutdinov announced that the company would soon begin publishing research in the field of artificial intelligence, suggesting that the company is keen on improving its relationships with academia and gaining some professional recognition in the process.

Understands requests using text and voice

In a Facebook blog post published Monday morning, Mark Zuckerberg described some of the inner workings behind his personal home automation AI assistant, a personal challenge he set out to complete in 2016 to run his home.

Jen-Hsun makes the grade

A report in the Harvard Business Review lists the top 100 performers and CEOs in the world and Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia has made number six in the list, way ahead of most of the rest of the pack.

A more personalized, habit-learning version of Google Now

On Tuesday during Google’s Pixel and Home product announcements, the company introduced a new voice-activated version of Google Search called Assistant, featuring a more friendly conversational interface that turns search results into one-sentence answers.

You know it makes sense

The Japanese government is set to spend $974 million on a 10 year project to make artificial intelligence (AI) a reality.

Watson is all about human insight, discovery and advice

On Wednesday, IBM’s Chief Technology Officer Rob High gave a keynote speech with an emphasis on “cognitive computing” – another term for artificial intelligence, but with a goal of changing the role between humans and machines rather than recreating the human brain in machine form.