The end of public cloud envy and the rise of AI predicted for this year
Published in Cloud


Arcserve says people are getting serious about it all

Arcserve has been shuffling its tarot cards and come up with three predictions for 2019 and their impact over the next 12 months.

Alexa didn't like Qualcomm's AI presentation
Published in AI
Wednesday, 09 January 2019 10:10

Alexa didn't like Qualcomm's AI presentation

 
Claimed a fact was untrue

A Qualcomm executive found he had a fact-checking critic in the form of Amazon's Alexa when he was trying to show off Qualcomm's goods at CES.

Intel teams up with Facebook for AI
Published in AI
Tuesday, 08 January 2019 12:14

Intel teams up with Facebook for AI


I am sorry Dave I am erasing your nipples

Intel is working with Facebook to finish a new artificial intelligence chip in the second half of this year.

IBM COO of AI and Quantum talks 2019
Published in AI
Wednesday, 26 December 2018 08:02

IBM COO of AI and Quantum talks 2019


Decision making, automation, trusted and reasoning

Dario Gil, chief operating officer of IBM’s AI and quantum computing has shared what was the big thing in 2018 and what might be big with AI in 2019. AI will be easier to use, complementing expert networks and  AI automation

ThoughtRiver developing AI based CV analysis
Published in AI
Friday, 14 December 2018 13:12

ThoughtRiver developing AI based CV analysis


Working alongside Professor Ted Briscoe computational linguistics expert

ThoughtRiver, the Cambridge-based leader in contract pre-screening technology, today announced that it has been awarded funding from Innovate UK for a £400,000 development project working alongside Professor Ted Briscoe, a well-known computational linguistics expert at Cambridge University.

Snapdragon is twice the AI speed of its 7nm Android competitor
Published in AI


Senior director Gary Brotman dilates on future of AI

Snapdragon 855 has a joker card that brings it significantly ahead of the competition of all 7nm players in the Android market. Gary Brotman, a senior director of product management focused on AI, dropped a bomb on the competition confirming that the 4th generation AI platform from Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is twice times faster than its 7nm Android based competitor.

Nvidia Uses AI to render virtual worlds in real time
Published in Graphics


Still has a few problems

The company named after a Roman chaos daemon claims its AI models can now draw new worlds without using traditional modelling techniques or graphics rendering engines.

Turing RT cores are made for AI
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 20 November 2018 16:07

Turing RT cores are made for AI


Great that they can do Ray Tracing

Graphics experts very close to what's happening have shared an interesting thesis that helped Nvidia justify the transistors spent in Turing RT cores. It is all about AI and the next generation data workloads.

Chinese kids building AI weapons
Published in AI
Thursday, 08 November 2018 11:59

Chinese kids building AI weapons


Recruited straight from school

Some of China's smartest students have been recruited straight from high school to begin training as the world's youngest AI weapons scientists.

AI has hit a learning barrier
Published in AI
Wednesday, 07 November 2018 12:04

AI has hit a learning barrier


Computer Science boffin warns of disaster in the making

A professor of Computer Science at Portland State University has warned that machine learning algorithms don't yet understand things the way humans do -- with sometimes disastrous consequences.