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#91 - DeepMind Mafia, DishBrain, PRIME, ZooKeeper AI, Instant NeRF

2022/3/31
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Andrey Kurenkov 和 Daniel Beshear 讨论了 DeepMind 众多前员工创办 AI 公司的现象,这些公司涉及气候、加密货币等多个领域,体现了 DeepMind 强大的 AI 人才储备和其技术在不同领域的应用潜力。他们认为,这种人才分散有助于 AI 技术在更多领域得到应用和发展。 Andrey Kurenkov 和 Daniel Beshear 详细介绍了 NVIDIA 推出的新一代 H100 芯片和 EOS 超级计算机,这两款产品旨在显著提升 AI 计算速度。他们分析了 H100 芯片的各项改进,特别是针对 Transformer 模型的优化,以及其在 AI 训练和推理方面的性能提升。他们认为,这是硬件行业对 AI 技术巨大投入的体现,也是 AI 技术发展对硬件需求变化的反映。

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The episode discusses the rise of startups by former DeepMind employees, highlighting the diversity of applications and the impact of their expertise in AI.

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Our 91st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Outline:

Applications & Business

Meet the DeepMind mafia: These 18 alumni from Google's AI research lab are raising millions for their own startups, from climate to crypto)

Nvidia unveils new technology to speed up AI, launches new supercomputer)

Kroger and Nvidia partner to ‘reinvent the shopping experience’ with AI and digital twin simulations)

Top AI execs, including Richard Socher, launch AIX Ventures)

Research & Advancements

Researchers From Cortical Labs Develop DishBrain: A Neural Network With Biological Neurons)

Google AI and UC Berkely Researchers Introduce A Deep Learning Approach Called 'PRIME' That Generates AI Chip Architectures By Drawing From Existing Blueprints And Performance Figures)

Seeing an elusive magnetic effect through the lens of machine learning)

AI confirms the obvious: The pandemic bummed people out)

Society & Ethics

US-China collaboration in AI papers drops amid ongoing tech war, Stanford report shows)

Banks Using AI Are Ripe for Russian Sabotage)

Automation will erase 'knowledge jobs' before most blue collar jobs: Future Today Institute CEO

Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says

Software vendors are pushing "explainable A.I." that often isn't

Fun & Neat

Ubisoft shows off machine learning tool for modelling animals)

Nvidia shows off AI model that turns a few dozen snapshots into a 3D-rendered scene)