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Google reveals performance of its custom AI chips

April 6, 2017 By editor

Google has just release performance data for its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) custom machine learning chips. TPUs are 15-20x faster than GPUs and CPUs when running deep learning applications 30-80x more power efficient (operations per Watt) frugal in terms of lines of code required to control them (their deep learning applications are implemented using 100-1500 lines) Google claim that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning Tagged With: TensorFlow, TPU

Parsey McParseface

May 13, 2016 By editor

Personally I think that the UK's National Environment Research Council (NERC) missed a trick in ignoring the results of their own public poll when naming their new polar research vessel. The poll results where overwhelmingly in favour of naming the vessel RRS Boaty McBoatface. Unfortunately, ministers went for the much safer fourth-placed option of naming it after beloved nature broadcaster Sir … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Machine learning Tagged With: Google, neural network, TensorFlow, text parser

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