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Nvidia unveils monstrous A100 AI chip with 54 billion transistors and 5 petaflops of performance

May 14, 2020
Nvidia unwrapped its Nvidia A100 artificial intelligence chip today, and CEO Jensen Huang called it the ultimate instrument for advancing AI. Huang said it can make supercomputing tasks — which are vital in the fight against COVID-19 — much more cost-efficient and powerful than today’s more expensive systems. The chip has a monstrous 54 billion transistors (the on-off switches that are the…
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NortonLifeLock’s BotSight tool uses AI to spot fake Twitter accounts

May 14, 2020
NortonLifeLock Research Group, the R&D division of antivirus vendor NortonLifeLock, today released a browser extension called BotSight that’s designed to detect potential Twitter bots in real time. The team behind it says BotSight is intended to highlight the prevalence of bots and disinformation campaigns within users’ feeds, as the spread of pandemic-related misinformation reaches a…
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Hailo partners with Foxconn to build edge device for AI inference

May 12, 2020
AI startup Hailo today announced that it’s teaming up with Foxconn and system-on-chip provider Socionext to launch BOXiedge, an edge computing processing solution for video analytics. If the companies’ claims bear out, BOXiedge could deliver “market-leading” energy efficiency for AI inference, benefiting applications like industrial internet of things, smart cities, and smart…
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Facebook is using more AI to detect hate speech

May 12, 2020
In Q1 2020, 9.6 million pieces of content posted on Facebook were removed for violation of company hate speech policy, the “largest gain in a period of time,” Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer told journalists today. For context, as recently as four years ago, Facebook…
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BabyWalk AI breaks complex navigation into simple steps

May 12, 2020
In a paper published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers affiliated with Google, Princeton, the University of Southern California, and Simon Fraser University propose BabyWalk, an AI that learns to navigate by breaking instructions into steps and completing them sequentially. They claim it achieves state-of-the-art results on several metrics and that it’s able to follow long…
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