During a recent talk at MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference, Qualcomm EVP & CTO Matt Grob shared new details on the next big thing coming out of CR&D: Zeroth, a new type of processor called a Neuro Processing Unit (NPU) that mimics the human brain and nervous system.
Unlike traditional processors, this biologically-inspired NPU has the ability to learn. That means it will be able to deal with uncertain, fuzzy data much more efficiently
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“The promise of this is a kind of machine that can learn, and be programmed without software—be programmed the way you teach your kid.”
Shame on you phone! Go sit in the corner til dinner time and think about what you've done.
a little inside baseball and prolly of little interest to most... the circuit board in that robot was a pretty interesting challenge. Fun problem to solve in of density, sig integrity, power distribution network quality and reliability. Huge tiles of processors w/ pitch and pin count suitable for small thin handsets not a large processor card.
The project lead is great fun to work with -- amazing background in hands on work since a kid on aircraft and all manner of radio/electronic hobby builds. If you've ever tested fabric on an aircraft you'd recognize his last name and know who his granddad is immediately.
"The Guncounter: More fun than a barrel of tattooed knife-fighting chain-smoking monkey butlers with drinking problems and excessive gambling debts!"
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic;" Justice Story
I did a neural network in software in grad school in the late 1980's, in Pascal on a TRS-80 model III. I could "teach" it letters, and ask it if it knew a letter it had already been taught.
“The promise of this is a kind of machine that can learn, and be programmed without software—be programmed the way you teach your kid.”
Only a techie could think that his kids could learn the way he programs a computer.
On second thought, clearly he doesn't have kids of his own.
The use of the word "but" usually indicates that everything preceding it in a sentence is a lie.
E.g.:
"I believe in Freedom of Speech, but". . .
"I support the Second Amendment, but". . .
--Randy
During a recent talk at MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference, Qualcomm EVP & CTO Matt Grob shared new details on the next big thing coming out of CR&D: Zeroth, a new type of processor called a Neuro Processing Unit (NPU) that mimics the human brain and nervous system.
Unlike traditional processors, this biologically-inspired NPU has the ability to learn. That means it will be able to deal with uncertain, fuzzy data much more efficiently
...
“The promise of this is a kind of machine that can learn, and be programmed without software—be programmed the way you teach your kid.”
Shame on you phone! Go sit in the corner til dinner time and think about what you've done.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
“The promise of this is a kind of machine that can learn, and be programmed without software—be programmed the way you teach your kid.”
Only a techie could think that his kids could learn the way he programs a computer.
On second thought, clearly he doesn't have kids of his own.
Except that's not what he's saying.
You have it exactly backwards. He's saying that this is a machine that can learn the same way you teach a child. We'll see if that pans out.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
Misunderestimate Matt at your peril. One of the coolest, "humble-est", fun loving, good humored, able to deliver on a commit, cleaned up genious nerds you'll ever run across.
A related item, QCOM is opening a robotics institute with UCSD. PJ (CEO) got his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley, with an emphasis on robotics.
"The Guncounter: More fun than a barrel of tattooed knife-fighting chain-smoking monkey butlers with drinking problems and excessive gambling debts!"
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic;" Justice Story
It's all fun and games until Skynet decides all humans are a threat, doesn't believe Asimov's Three Rules of Robotics, and then we're all majorly boned.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
