THE MACHINE LEARNING REVOLUTION.

MACHINE learning; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; SUPERCOMPUTERS; DEEP learning; NATURAL language processing; CORPORATE vice-presidents; COMPUTER programming

Granted, the Google TPU is not something you'll find in your PC or phone, but it's another example of how the computing industry is converging around a common approach to AI acceleration, and confirmation that AI is a meaningful computing paradigm, not merely a marketing term. Google says those TPUs, incidentally, were used to identify and process all the text appearing in its entire StreetView database in Google Maps in under five days. Broadly, Apple is moving away from cloud AI to on-device AI. The Economist magazine reckons enthusiasm for AI across industry is stalling, in part due to being overhyped, citing a survey of European AI start-ups that found 40 percent were not actually using AI at all. You can find out more about the limitations of existing AI systems in the boxout on the facing page, but if we've established the rough parameters of AI, the next question is how it's implemented and what kind of hardware is required. [Extracted from the article]

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