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Nvidia collaborates with the University of Florida to build 700-petaflop AI supercomputer

Nvidia and the University of Florida (UF) today announced plans to build the fastest AI supercomputer in academia. By enhancing the capabilities of UF’s existing HiPerGator supercomputer with the DGX SuperPod architecture, Nvidia claims the system — which it expects will be up and running by early 2021 — will deliver 700 petaflops (one quadrillion floating point operations per second) of…
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Immervision uses AI for better wide-angle smartphone videos and photos

Immervision has announced real-time video distortion correction software to help create professional quality videos on smartphones. The Montreal company also revealed an off-the-shelf 125-degree wide-angle lens, enabling mobile phone makers to improve their next-generation smartphone cameras. The software algorithms are now available for mobile phone makers to license from Immervision’s…
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Work-at-home AI surveillance is a move in the wrong direction

While we have all been focused on facial recognition as the poster child for AI ethics, another concerning form of AI has quietly emerged and rapidly advanced during COVID-19: AI-enabled employee surveillance at home. Though we are justifiably worried about being watched while out in public, we are now increasingly being observed in our homes. Surveillance of employees is hardly new. This started…
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eBay CTO: AI is now an ‘ecosystem’ for us

While eBay could have used any number of existing AI platforms to enhance its various products, the company instead elected to build its own AI system — dubbed Krylov — in-house and make it open source for anyone to use. That decision appears to be paying off. The San…
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Female leaders talk ethics, representation, and more at Transform 2020’s Women in AI breakfast

Presented by Capital One At Transform’s second annual Women in AI Breakfast presented by Capital One and Intel, powerful women from tech companies across the industry gathered to talk about how women, particularly women of color, can take their seats at the table in the technology industry. “Much has been written about the industry’s pipeline problem, and how we can increase diversity in…
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