Intel working with Facebook on chips for AI : October 18, 2017

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-intel-facebook-chips-ai.html

Intel chief Brian Krzanich said Tuesday his company is working on a super-fast chip designed specifically for artificial intelligence.

The chipmaking giant is partnering with Facebook and other internet titans investing heavily in artificial intelligence to create the first in what will be a family of “Nervana Neural Network Processors” tailored to the needs of the emerging technology, Krzanich said during an on-stage interview at the WSJD Live conference.

“I think we are just at the beginning of a transformation,” Krzanich said while discussing why Intel was betting on AI.

“Artificial intelligence is going to be similar to what the internet was back in the 1990s.”

Chips designed for AI need to deftly handle massive amounts of data and sensor input in real time.

Cloud services have been a hotbed for AI innovation, so Intel has partnered with Facebook and other companies in that arena to build a chip tailored from the ground up to meet those needs, according to Krzanich.

“This is the first piece of silicon,” Krzanich said. “We have a whole family planned for this, (Facebook) is helping us, along with others, as to where this is going.”

In a separate blog post on Intel’s website, Krzanich said he believes these new chips will enabled “new classes of AI applications” to help transform health care, social media, automobiles and weather forecasting, among others.

The new chip has been in the works for more than three years, and the first member of the new family is expected to start shipping “soon,” according to an online post by Naveen Rao, a co-founder of deep-learning startup Nervana which was bought by Intel in 2016.

“We designed the Intel Nervana NNP to free us from the limitations imposed by existing hardware, which wasn’t explicitly designed for AI,” Rao said.

Intel, which has been expanding beyond its core of personal computer chips in that sagging market, is keen for its technology to be an engine powering artificial intelligence and self-driving systems.

Intel announced in September that its computing tech is being loaded into Waymo self-driving minivans as the chip giant seeks a leading position on the road to autonomous vehicles.

@looarn
:bow_tone1: im so soori about my ‘bad-habit’ when doing the typing-in hurry… :bow_tone1: :disappointed_relieved:
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thanks for bring this thing up… and this is not the 1st time someone mentioning this… :hear_no_evil: :see_no_evil: :speak_no_evil: :see_no_evil: :see_no_evil: :speak_no_evil:
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again, thanks for reply. so, just ‘hodling’ and be a ‘strong-hand’ :muscle_tone2: then ehh…? :hugging:

Thanks for the link

Ok, I’ll check your link

Wow, @knightfang , sorry to hear about your friend, thanks for the post.

Thanks for that, it was interesting to see Feathercoin mentioned, despite the “click bait” title. I got into crypto because you could “print your own money”, but that is not necessarily the same as “getting rich.”

The reason I ended up helping Feathercoin was that, there was a massive technical barrier to getting involved directly with Bitcoin, or even Litecoin. Feathercoin has offered a friendlier forum, with the more humbler moto, of “we don’t know, but it will be fun to find out.”

In the end Feathercoin’s devs have been involved in areas of crypto development few others have experience with, creating eHRC or Kimoto Gravity well, or hard forking the algorythm, so there is room, and importance for more experimental currency than just Bitcoin.

@wrapper
Totally agree, i meant from the AML, KYC and tracability perspective of it.

There are only 20 nodes - the price must just be them buying from themselves.

https://bitinfocharts.com/megacoin/

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/megacoin-marketcap.html

@Wellenreiter said in This is what everyone on this forum has to do!!!:

Without knowing who made the statement the Feathercoin is the third most popularcoin, many people here - me included- think, that Feathercoin ist at least
the third best coin. ;)

And @Wrapper is right, we don’t want a pump & dump scenario for the Feathers

Spoken like a true sage.

Anyone who has been into crypto long enough remember this

BTC = Gold
LTC = Silver
FTC = Bronze / Copper

Everything else has not been around enough in my humble opinion.

@AcidD

This is not true at all…You just need to understand the power of the blockchain.

i understood the blockchain, that is why i want to use it for something valuable, like a coin-debt obligation

One small example: Feathercoin has an OpenName DNS service with a ton of possibilities…
Even Basic things like OP_RETURN allow you to store data directly on the blockchain…
You are only limited by your imagination

jeah i belive its a nice IT system as dash is, and you work a lot for it, but money once started as debt the bankers had towards people that trusted them, not with a nice zertified sheet of paper…

Are you describing Fiat or Crypto ? ;-) The very same can be said for the US Dollar or the “Great” British Pound…

maybe for us Dollar or the british pound, but there is more behind it, the banking elite uses the money for strategic goals like using their army to keep up regimes in the middle east to secure the oil standard.

the us dollar is valuable not because its a great uncopyable certification its because u can guarantely buy oil with it.

in other countries the bankers are beeing trusted with managing the countries limited ressources.

@FlatBlack said in After Petahash....:

Taken from 2013 September 17th article…
What does one exahash look like?

To me one exahash would look like the new world order of payments. ;-)

Indeed,
one more reason for me to have no Paypal account at all

That’s actually “on topic”

@xonar said in Ransomware-Attack-Threat-escalating/:

you’re AMLETic

@Xonar I agree …

I have imagined a piece for David Mitchell’s soapbox where he says "It’s more likely the Queen has had her “reptilian brain” removed, and is “fully human” without all the natural instincts to prevent conflict and get along with others of your species present in reptiles etc …

note : Whatching too much David Mitchell’s soapbox.

Members and admins have spent a lot of time designing the forum so you can get involved. There are sections you can discuss mining or exchanges, or see the technical discussions of how the FTC software is built.

There is also a Guides section, and support, for if you get into trouble with the Feathercoin Wallet.