Jaime Hampton

Samsung Announces 24Gbps GDDR6 DRAM for 30% Faster Speeds

July 15th, 2022 Comments Off

Samsung Electronics announced Thursday it has begun sampling a 16GB Graphics Double Data Rate 6 (GDDR6) DRAM featuring 24-gigabit-per-second processing speeds. The new high-speed memory chips for graphics cards are built on Samsung’s third-generation 10-nanometer class process using EUV ...

Meta Releases AI Model That Translates Over 200 Languages

July 11th, 2022 Comments Off

If you’ve ever witnessed the bizarre word stew that Facebook sometimes concocts when translating content between languages, you have seen how translation technology doesn't always hit its mark. That could be changing soon, especially for less common languages. Meta ...

Google Suspends Senior Engineer After He Claims LaMDA Is Sentient

June 13th, 2022 Comments Off

Google has placed a senior software engineer on leave for violating its confidentiality policies after he publicly claimed its LaMDA conversational AI system is sentient. Blake Lemoine was part of Google’s Responsible AI organization and began having conversations with ...

Service Mesh Project Istio Announces Intent to Join CNCF

April 26th, 2022 Comments Off

Open source service mesh project Istio has announced its intention to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as an incubating project. Google, IBM, and Lyft launched Istio v0.1 in May 2017, and according to the Istio Steering Committee’s announcement, “That ...

Nvidia Unveils OVX System Purpose-Built for Industrial Digital Twins

March 22nd, 2022 Comments Off

Today at its GTC developer conference, Nvidia launched a new computing system for industrial digital twins, the Nvidia OVX. Nvidia OVX was created for the purpose of running digital twin simulations within the Omniverse, Nvidia’s industrial operations metaverse that ...

Accenture Report Explores the ‘Unreal’ World of Synthetic Data and Generative AI

March 19th, 2022 Comments Off

Accenture has released its Accenture Technology Vision 2022, a report examining key technologies under the theme “Meet Me in the Metaverse: The Continuum of Technology and Experience Reshaping Business.” The report combines input from Accenture‘s Technology Vision External Advisory board ...

AIOps Platform Selector Raises $28M Series A

March 15th, 2022 Comments Off

Selector, an AIOps, analytics and observability platform provider, has announced it raised $28 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $33 million. Selector will use these new funds for its market strategy and expansion ...

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Tackles Power Grid Failures with AI

February 28th, 2022 Comments Off

Next time your power stays on during a severe weather event, you may have a machine learning model to thank. Researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab are using artificial intelligence to solve power grid failures. The manager of ...

Aporia Tackles AI Trust with $25M Series A Round

February 22nd, 2022 Comments Off

Aporia, an observability platform for machine learning, has announced a $25 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $30 million. With the ever-expanding use of AI for business intelligence, data integrity and trustworthiness of predictions made ...

DeepMind’s AI Algorithm Brings Science One Step Closer to Fusion

February 17th, 2022 Comments Off

Harnessing the power of the stars – which are fueled by clean, stable, high-output nuclear fusion energy – is a lofty goal for meeting our world’s ever-increasing energy needs. Fusion now seems closer than ever thanks to artificial intelligence. Researchers ...

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