Google has revealed new benchmark results for its custom TensorFlow processing unit, or TPU. In inference workloads, the company’s ASIC positively smokes hardware from Intel, Nvidia. Source: Google’s dedicated TensorFlow processor, or TPU, crushes Intel, Nvidia in inference workloads – ExtremeTech

With all the work you’re doing to create a humanlike persona for your AI, the last thing you want to do is break the spell with a lapse into botlike behavior — especially in the form of intrusive marketing. You might want to build your AI to offer tips and suggestions, but I would advise that […]

shows the limits of relying purely on statistical machine learning. “At some point, we have to admit that we need a little bit of semantics and a little bit of syntactic knowledge in these systems in order for them to be fluid and fluent,” says Hammond. Source: An Algorithm Summarizes Lengthy Text Surprisingly Well – […]

Artificial intelligence has a huge potential to reduce time and improve efficiency in legal work. On the litigation side, natural language processing (text analytics) can summarize thousands of pages of legal documents within minutes – a task that might take a human counterpart several days to complete – while reducing the probability of error. As […]

The 2015 World Economic Forum, underlined the concept of blockchain as one of the six future megatrends for the next decade. A possible impact on transaction activities is that none of these are likely to become a reality unless governments and businesses adapt quickly to the new platform. This would likely facilitate automated processes using […]

Using in-depth analysis of blockchains through the data they produce and pattern recognition across thousands of interactions, it may be possible to identify nefarious users and those you should avoid doing business with. It is the equivalent of credit checks on a credit card, making sure that the actions are legal and genuine. This kind […]

We have blockchain tech’s promise of near-frictionless value exchange and artificial intelligence’s ability to accelerate the analysis of massive amounts of data. The joining of the two could mark the beginning of an entirely new paradigm. We can maximize security while remaining immutable by employing artificial intelligent agents that govern the chain. With more companies […]

Last year, researchers were able to fool a commercial facial recognition system into thinking they were someone else just by wearing a pair of patterned glasses. A sticker overlay with a hallucinogenic print was stuck onto the frames of the specs. The twists and curves of the pattern look random to humans, but to a […]

What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone’s job — perhaps your own? Before the machines become smart enough to replace humans, as some people fear, the machines need teachers. Now, some companies are taking the first steps, deploying artificial intelligence in the workplace and asking their […]

In a paper posted to the arXiv preprint server this week, a team of computer scientists from the Renmin University of China in Beijing describes their system for fooling a computer trained to understand language. In short, by adding one very specific word to a particular part of a long sentence, or slightly misspelling one […]