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How GPUs Can Democratize Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics Development

It can take a puppy weeks to learn that certain kinds of behaviors will result in a yummy treat, extra cuddles or a belly rub — and that other behaviors won’t. With a system of positive reinforcement, a pet pooch will in time anticipate that chasing squirrels is less likely to be rewarded than staying Read article >

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Chalk and Awe: Studio Crafts Creative Battle Between Stick Figures with Real-Time Rendering

It’s time to bring krisp graphics to stick figure drawings. Creative studio SoKrispyMedia, started by content creators Sam Wickert and Eric Leigh, develops short videos blended with high-quality visual effects. Since publishing one of their early works eight years ago on YouTube, Chalk Warfare 1, the team has regularly put out short films that showcase Read article >

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Big Wheels Keep on Learnin’: Einride’s AI Trucks Advance Capabilities with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin

Swedish startup Einride has rejigged the big rig for highways around the world. The autonomous truck maker launched the next generation of its cab-less autonomous truck, known as the Pod, with new, advanced functionality and pricing. The AI vehicles, which will be commercially available worldwide, will be powered by the latest in high-performance, energy-efficient compute Read article >

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NVIDIA Boosts Academic AI Research for Business Innovation

Academic researchers are developing AI to solve challenging problems with everything from agricultural robotics to autonomous flying machines. To help AI research like this make the leap from academia to commercial or government deployment, NVIDIA today announced the Applied Research Accelerator Program. The program supports applied research on NVIDIA platforms for GPU-accelerated application deployments. The Read article >

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NVIDIA Research Achieves AI Training Breakthrough Using Limited Datasets

NVIDIA Research’s latest AI model is a prodigy among generative adversarial networks. Using a fraction of the study material needed by a typical GAN, it can learn skills as complex as emulating renowned painters and recreating images of cancer tissue. By applying a breakthrough neural network training technique to the popular NVIDIA StyleGAN2 model, NVIDIA Read article >

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Faster Physics: How AI and NVIDIA A100 GPUs Automate Particle Physics

What are the fundamental laws that govern our universe? How did the matter in the universe today get there? What exactly is dark matter? The questions may be eternal, but no human scientist has an eternity to answer them. Now, thanks to NVIDIA technology and cutting-edge AI, the more than 1,000 collaborators from 26 countries Read article >

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Majority Report: Experts Talk Future of AI and Its Impact on Global Industries

AI is the largest technology force of our time, with the most potential to transform industries. It will bring new intelligence to healthcare, education, automotive, retail and finance, creating trillions of dollars in a new AI economy. As businesses look ahead to 2021 priorities, now’s a great time to look back at where the world Read article >

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NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally to Keynote at GTC China

Bill Dally — one of the world’s foremost computer scientists and head of NVIDIA’s research efforts — will deliver the keynote address during GTC China, the latest event in the world’s premier conference series focused on AI, deep learning and high performance computing. Registration is not required to view the keynote, which will take place Read article >

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Behind the Scenes at NeurIPS with NVIDIA and CalTech’s Anima Anandkumar

Anima Anandkumar is setting a personal record this week with seven of her team’s research papers accepted to NeurIPS 2020. The 34th annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference is taking place virtually from Dec. 6-12. The premier event on neural networks, NeurIPS draws thousands of the world’s best researchers every year. Anandkumar, NVIDIA’s director of Read article >

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Talk Stars: Israeli AI Startup Brings Fluency to Natural Language Understanding

Whether talking with banks, cell phone providers or insurance companies, customers often encounter AI-powered voice interfaces to direct their calls to the right department. But these interfaces typically are limited to understanding certain keywords. Onvego, an Israel-based startup, is working to make these systems understand what you say, no matter how you say it. Before Read article >

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