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Intel has flexed its AI muscles and beefed up its services with a bunch of new products and collaborations, in an effort to adapt to the technological upheaval of intelligent software. At Intel’s first “AI Day” in San Francisco, Brian Krzanich, CEO, said the company is “continuing to evolve” and working to provide an “end-to- …

  1. Milton

    Best architecture for "AI"

    I still think the term "deep machine learning" is more accurate than the marketurds' "AI" twaddle, but, that aside, it's been my impression that neither traditional CPU architecture nor GPU is particularly suited to "AI" purposes. The FPGA approach seems like option for a better philosphical and logical choice.

    Of course we can argue that anything capable of implementing a Turing complete system, if powerful and fast enough, could "do AI", since it's the code that matters. Except, in an "AI", the algorithms that ultimately get executed were likely not the ones originally written. There is flexibility and fluidity right down to the bits. So it seems reasonable that a machine designed for deep learning, which means discovering and executing new rules and algorithms on the fly, might benefit from being able to redefine the very computing substrate it runs on.

    1. Brian Miller

      Re: Best architecture for "AI"

      No, not an FPGA. Those take relatively significant time to reprogram. On-the-fly loadable microcode in an AI-oriented architecture would be a better choice.

    2. Ken Hagan Gold badge

      Re: Best architecture for "AI"

      If, as appears to be the case, we are confusing AI with analysing all that big data being gathered by world+wife, then the big data is merely a large constant input and so whatever analysis we're doing is embarrassingly parallel. A stupidly-parallel cluster of cheap boxes with fast access to the raw data should suffice.

      If we're talking about AI as in "the machine changes what it actually does based on the results of past activity" then it is not terribly obvious what the best architecture is because it isn't terribly obvious what the best algorithm is. As far as I'm aware, we still don't have either a definition of intelligence or an objective test for it. On the other hand, if you want to attach little windmills to all the hand-waving then we do have a solution to the energy crisis.

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