Man’s Search for the most accurate Neural Network Architecture

Neural network architecture design is one of the key hyperparameters in solving problems using deep learning and computer vision. Various neural networks are compared on two key factors i.e. accuracy and computational requirement. In general, as we aim to design more accurate neural networks, the computational requirement increases. In this post, we shall learn about the search for more accurate neural network architectures without worrying about computational need. We shall also see how neural networks can be taught to design themselves and how this technique is being used to discover better neural network architectures(AutoML or Neural Architecture Search).

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NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner on AI, IoT

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GPU Technology Conference—NVIDIA today announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT on NVIDIA® Jetson™ to enable customers to deploy AI and deep learning to millions of connected devices.

This joint solution enables models to be easily created, trained and optimized on AWS, then deployed to Jetson-powered edge devices using AWS IoT Greengrass.

The NVIDIA Jetson platform offers AI at the edge with high-performance and power-efficient computing. Applications include autonomous machines and smart cameras for industries such as retail, manufacturing, agriculture and more. Read More

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The Spycraft Revolution

The world of espionage is facing tremendous technological, political, legal, social, and commercial changes. The winners will be those who break the old rules of the spy game and work out new ones. They will need to be nimble and collaborative and—paradoxically—to shed much of the secrecy that has cloaked their trade since its inception.

The balance of power in the spy world is shifting; closed societies now have the edge over open ones. It has become harder for Western countries to spy on places such as China, Iran, and Russia and easier for those countries’ intelligence services to spy on the rest of the world. Technical prowess is also shifting. Much like manned spaceflight, human-based intelligence is starting to look costly and anachronistic. Meanwhile, a gulf is growing between the cryptographic superpowers—the United States, United Kingdom, France, Israel, China, and Russia—and everyone else. Technical expertise, rather than human sleuthing, will hold the key to future success. Read More

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Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings

A state-of-the-art brain-machine interface created by UC San Francisco neuroscientists can generate natural-sounding synthetic speech by using brain activity to control a virtual vocal tract – an anatomically detailed computer simulation including the lips, jaw, tongue and larynx. The study was conducted in research participants with intact speech, but the technology could one day restore the voices of people who have lost the ability to speak due to paralysis and other forms of neurological damage.  Read More

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The Pentagon wants your thoughts about AI but may not listen

IN FEBRUARY, THE Pentagon unveiled an expansive new artificial intelligence strategy that promised the technology would be used to enhance everything the department does, from killing enemies to treating injured soldiers. It said an Obama-era advisory board packed with representatives of the tech industry would help craft guidelines to ensure the technology’s power was used ethically.

In the heart of Silicon Valley on Thursday, that board asked the public for advice. It got an earful—from tech executives, advocacy groups, AI researchers, and veterans, among others. Many were wary of the Pentagon’s AI ambitions and urged the board to lay down rules that would subject the department’s AI projects to close controls and scrutiny. Read More

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GPUs usher in a new era in government analytics

Decades ago, graphics processing units were used mostly for rendering ninja fighters and Formula One racecars. Since their days in game systems, however, GPUs have experienced an amazing evolution in processing power. Today they sit at the very center of enterprise computing — and in doing so, are ushering in a new era of capability and insight for government agencies.

The unique ability of these more advanced GPUs to handle artificial intelligence, machine learning and other high-performance tasks have made them a vital component of digital transformation. Many agency IT departments are discovering the power of GPUs to make better use of massive amounts of data. With the volume of data amassing at ever-increasing rates — 40% annually by many accounts — processing power is becoming essential to better public service and improved national security.

Currently, CPU processing power and performance is growing by 10-20% per year — not nearly fast enough to keep pace with data generated from billions of active and passive data sources. GPU performance, on the other hand, is growing by an impressive 50% per year. In the latest TOP500 supercomputer rankings, more performance gains were added by GPUs than CPUs for the first time ever. Read More

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Eye on A.I.— Why You Should Be Concerned About China's Gains in Artificial Intelligence

Chinese tech giants Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are rapidly improving their artificial intelligence, challenging current U.S. tech leaders like Google and Amazon.

China’s so-called BAT companies, as New York University business professor and futurist Amy Webb calls them in her latest book, The Big Nine, get a big boost from their government’s funding and tech-friendly policies. Government support has helped embed the BAT companies’ technologies across China, in everything from mobile messaging and e-commerce, to digital payments and health care.

In an interview with Fortune, Webb contrasted the relationship between China’s government and that country’s A.I. titans with their U.S counterparts and the Trump Administration. In short, the gap is huge—and it could have profound implications for the U.S. economy. Read More

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Inception Spotlight: Startup Uses AI to Identify Products in Videos

New York City-based startup TheTake, a member of the NVIDIA Inception program, recently unveiled a new deep learning-based algorithm that can automatically decode what a celebrity, athlete, or other public figure is wearing in a video in near real time.

“TheTake’s mission is simple: making media content shoppable,” said Jake Browarnik, the company’s Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer.  “The deep learning technology we use is incredibly complex – it takes a concert of machine learning models working in tandem to accomplish that mission. And only by leveraging the power NVIDIA’s GPUs are we able to train and deploy our models quickly and efficiently.” Read More

Georgia Tech, UC Davis, Texas A&M Join NVAIL Program with Focus on Graph Analytics

NVIDIA is partnering with three leading universities — Georgia Tech, the University of California, Davis, and Texas A&M — as part of our NVIDIA AI Labs program, to build the future of graph analytics on GPUs.

NVIDIA’s work with these three new NVAIL partners aims to ultimately create a one-stop shop for customers to take advantage of accelerated graph analytics algorithms. Read More

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Cheat Sheets for AI, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Big Data

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