TECHNOLOGY
“ ALTHOUGH AI HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME , BEFORE
NOW THE PROCESSING POWER NEEDED FOR IT TO SUCCEED JUST WASN ’ T AVAILABLE ”
– Richard Jackson , Vice President for the EMEA Partner Organisation at NVIDIA is a bit like Russian dolls . AI is the overarching idea , within which machine learning and deep learning fit .
For a large part , the entertainment industry has molded what we think of when we think of intelligent machines and AI . In reality , what ’ s possible today is known as ‘ Narrow AI ’, as opposed to the ‘ General AI ’ displayed by C3PO and The Terminator . Narrow AI encompasses technologies that can perform specific tasks , such as image classification or speech recognition , as well as or better than humans .
This human-like intelligence brings us to deep learning . It ’ s a fundamentally new software model where billions of software-neurons and trillions of connections are trained in parallel . The graphics processing unit emerged as the ideal processor to accelerate deep learning .
“ GPUs , like artificial neural networks and the human brains on
www . businessrevieweurope . eu 43