Reported to be represented in Israel, England, Japan and Taiwan. Nvidia chief Jensen Huang says AI is creating a ‘new computing era’ FT Jensen Huang warned in a speech in Taiwan that the traditional tech industry would not keep pace with AI’s advances, adding that the technology had dramatically lowered the barrier to entry to computer coding. “We have reached the tipping point of a new computing era,” Huang said on Monday, arguing that AI now enabled individuals to create programmes simply by plugging in commands. Snippets from FT piece. Subscribe to get the entire article. Demand has soared for … Continue reading Nvidia announced a new AI supercomputer platform

How Nvidia created the chip powering the generative AI boom Financial Times Some snippets from FT piece here on software approach cost structure and user base. Nvidia originally focussed on software for chip development supporting gaming GPU. This was a prescient shift. Nvidia now has more software engineers than hardware engineers to enable it to support the many different kinds of AI frameworks that have emerged in the subsequent years and make its chips more efficient at the statistical computation needed to train AI models. Hopper was the first architecture optimised for “transformers”, the approach to AI that underpins OpenAI’s … Continue reading How Nvidia created the chip powering the generative AI boom

Link I post the transcript of the Google data scientists on the topic of medicine and AI. What struck me is the different ways required to think about data in a LLM (Large Language Model) context. I see and hear no exclusions; only inclusion. Then there is the concept of a unit. They did not dwell there but I see the challenge in how to store data for retrieval in ways that retain context or multiple contexts. At one point they talk of the sheer computing power needed and how Google provides that aspect with relative ease. Some thoughts on … Continue reading Google’s Exploration of Large Language Models in Medicine

The Star runs this piece on job impacts from AI. It is a good piece categorizing impacts on job sectors and a view that young people considering eduction and those in long time roles would do well to to consider retraining and moving to stay ahead. Because rest assure the changes are coming. See it below this post. However I like to stand back and consider what is going on and understand the unintended consequences of the AI shift over coming decades. The Star piece focusses (in my view) on the impacts from ChatGPT and its evolution in role replacement. … Continue reading How should we think about impact on jobs – AI-Episode 2 (AI-E2)

Start-Ups Bring Silicon Valley Ethos to a Lumbering Military-Industrial Complex By Eric Lipton Small, fast-moving U.S. tech firms are using the war in Ukraine to demonstrate a new generation of military systems but face the challenge of selling them to a risk-averse Defense Department. The U.S. Needs Minerals for Electric Cars. Everyone Else Wants Them Too. By Ana Swanson The United States is entering an array of agreements to secure the critical minerals necessary for the energy transition, but it’s not clear which of the arrangements can succeed. France’s Latest Way to Sound Anger Over Pensions Law: Saucepans By Constant … Continue reading NYT Top News 2023-05-22

Start-Ups Bring Silicon Valley Ethos to a Lumbering Military-Industrial Complex By Eric Lipton Small, fast-moving U.S. tech firms are using the war in Ukraine to demonstrate a new generation of military systems but face the challenge of selling them to a risk-averse Defense Department. The U.S. Needs Minerals for Electric Cars. Everyone Else Wants Them Too. By Ana Swanson The United States is entering an array of agreements to secure the critical minerals necessary for the energy transition, but it’s not clear which of the arrangements can succeed. France’s Latest Way to Sound Anger Over Pensions Law: Saucepans By Constant … Continue reading NYT Top News 2023-05-22