Google I/O 2017 - Google launches a new AI division - "Skynet" will help sequence DNA not start a war with humans.... yet
Google I/O 2017 - Google launches a new AI division - Skynet will help sequence DNA not start a war with humans.... yet Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced at the Google's I/O developer conference the launch of a new division that will be dedicated to AI in both services and research. This new division already has a new site www.google.ai and will be focused on AI, deep learning as well as building the services and tools to make it all possible. Pichai also announced new Cloud TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) which uses to train machine-learning models is available in the Google Cloud Platform for anyone to use via the Google Compute Engine today. In his own words"We want it to be possible for hundreds of thousands of developers to use machine learning". Each device delivers up to 180 teraflops of floating-point performance, and these new TPUs are designed to be connected into even larger systems. A 64-TPU pod can apply up to 11.5 petaflops of com...