Source: fortune.com One of the most promising approaches to artificial intelligence is to try to mimic how the human brain works in software. But now an Australian startup has gone a step further. It’s actually building miniature disembodied brains, using real, biological neurons embedded on a specialized computer chip. Cortical Labs, based in Melbourne, is hoping Read More
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Source: zdnet.com Alphabet’s Google unit is trying out artificial intelligence programs to advance its internal development of dedicated chips to accelerate its software, according to Google’s head of AI research, Jeff Dean. “We are using it internally for a few chip design projects,” said Dean in an interview with ZDNet Monday, following a keynote talk he gave at the Read More
Source: crn.com Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems claims it has the “world’s fastest AI supercomputer,” thanks to its large Wafer Scale Engine processor that comes with 400,000 compute cores. The Los Altos, Calif.-based startup introduced its CS-1 system at the Supercomputing conference in Denver last week after raising more than $200 million in funding from investors, Read More
Source – livemint.com Arusha (Tanzania): Nigerian neuroscientist Oshiorenoya Agabi may have found a way to solve one of life’s puzzling dilemmas: how to make air travel pleasant again. What if you could skip tedious airport security lines, while a special device able to sniff out explosives works silently in the background? This is only one of the Read More