Monday, September 18th 2017
Intel Invests $1 Billion in the AI Ecosystem
The following is an opinion editorial provided by Brian Krzanich, chief executive officer of Intel Corporation. At Intel, we have an optimistic and pragmatic view of artificial intelligence's (AI) impact on society, jobs and daily life that will mimic other profound transformations - from the industrial to the PC revolutions. Our belief is that AI will bring significant new opportunities to transform business - from retail to healthcare to manufacturing - and have an immensely positive impact on society.
AI will make the impossible possible: advancing research on cancer, Parkinson's disease and brain disorders; helping to find missing children; and furthering scientific efforts in climate change, space exploration and oceanic research. To drive AI innovation, Intel is making strategic investments spanning technology, R&D and partnerships with business, government, academia and community groups. We are deeply committed to unlocking the promise of AI: conducting research on neuromorphic computing, exploring new architectures and learning paradigms. We have also invested in startups like Mighty AI, Data Robot and Lumiata through our Intel Capital portfolio and have invested more than $1 billion in companies that are helping to advance artificial intelligence.
I believe Intel will be the AI platform of choice, offering unmatched reliability, performance, security and integration. We are 100 percent committed to creating the roadmap of optimized products to support emerging mainstream AI workloads.
AI solutions require a wide range of power and performance to meet application needs, and Intel has the largest selection of options for our customers to choose from. To support the sheer breadth of future AI workloads, businesses will need unmatched flexibility and infrastructure optimization so that both highly specialized and general purpose AI functions can run alongside other critical business workloads. The Intel Nervana AI portfolio delivers this breadth:
AI will make the impossible possible: advancing research on cancer, Parkinson's disease and brain disorders; helping to find missing children; and furthering scientific efforts in climate change, space exploration and oceanic research. To drive AI innovation, Intel is making strategic investments spanning technology, R&D and partnerships with business, government, academia and community groups. We are deeply committed to unlocking the promise of AI: conducting research on neuromorphic computing, exploring new architectures and learning paradigms. We have also invested in startups like Mighty AI, Data Robot and Lumiata through our Intel Capital portfolio and have invested more than $1 billion in companies that are helping to advance artificial intelligence.
AI solutions require a wide range of power and performance to meet application needs, and Intel has the largest selection of options for our customers to choose from. To support the sheer breadth of future AI workloads, businesses will need unmatched flexibility and infrastructure optimization so that both highly specialized and general purpose AI functions can run alongside other critical business workloads. The Intel Nervana AI portfolio delivers this breadth:
- Intel Xeon Scalable family - providing highly scalable processors for evolving AI workloads and our purpose-built silicon for the most intensive deep learning training, code-named "Lake Crest"
- Intel Mobileye - vision technologies for specialized use cases such as active safety and autonomous driving
- Intel FPGAs - programmable accelerators for deep learning inference
- Intel Movidius - low-power vision technology provides machine learning at the edge
7 Comments on Intel Invests $1 Billion in the AI Ecosystem
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For AI, I've yet to see Intel being disruptive. I have a feeling their innovation may be less than legitimate having been caught out by Nvidia's huge traction in AI.
Will be interesting to see how both super companies like Intel and Apple grab their slice of the pie. So far Volta has been the most powerful, at least in the public domain, AI solution.
Nvidia is miles ahead of them , I reckon the gap is too big for them to catch up but maybe they'll surprise us.
Not trying to stir up paranoia over this, more like with the nature of such advances it's not bad to think about it from both viewpoints, good and bad.
Do recall not long ago reports that the chatbot AI of a site that was said to be either Google and/or Facebook was shutdown because it had invented it's own language. The AI advances being propsed here would be far beyond what those bots were which, to be fair BTW was reported to be experimental.
These reports were also said to be false too so you'll have to do your own research and decide from there, however with any advance you'll have issues and concerns right along with what could be positives from it - That's the nature of such things you know.
Other known AI's such as Cortana are actually quite useful but others view Cortana and others like it as a nusiance and privacy concern too. WATSON would be the closest thing I'm aware of and it's shown itself to be capable of alot more than it was originally designed for, being that WATSON is an AI/Super computer combo..... But obviously any AI made like what's being discussed here would have to be hosted on such a computer to function.
Again you'll have to reach your own conclusion, I can't just tell you "What" to think but you could tell an AI such.
Just sayin guys.