Monthly Archives: May 2018

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Navigation

A recent Nature article (https://go.nature.com/2GdzegP) and accompanying blog post by the paper’s authors (https://deepmind.com/blog/grid-cells/) describes how the Andrea Banino et. al. from Deep Mind developed an artificial neural network to investigate how mammals use neural grid cells to perform vector-based navigation.  … Continue reading

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Google Duplex – I’m Pretty Amazed!

One of the things that we often see in Sci-Fi movies, but rarely experience in real life, is the ability to have a natural conversation with a computer. Rapid advances in AI and deep learning in recent years have brought … Continue reading

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Nvidia Quadro GV100 – A Deep Learning Supercomputer on a Card

At this year’s GPU Technology Conference (Mar 28-30, 2018), Nvidia announced a new GPU specifically designed for deep learning.  The Quadro GV100, based on Nvidia’s latest Volta architecture, sports 5120 CUDA cores, 640 tensor cores, and 32GB of VRAM – … Continue reading

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Linux Foundation Launches Deep Learning Foundation

The Linux Foundation recently launched the LF Deep Learning Foundation. The goal of this foundation is to support open source innovations in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation’s Executive Director, stated  “We are excited … Continue reading

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