JamieBeckett
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I'm a writer covering AI for NVIDIA's corporate blog. I write about interesting applications of AI/ML/DL, especially in science and medicine.
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Comment · 8 years ago
The researchers had something online at one point, but it wasn't working when I needed the link for the story. They said they planned to fix it, but so far they haven't.
Comment · 8 years ago
Sounds like an other instance of corporate greed. And for this, corporations just got a giant tax break! Thanks, GOP.
I expect that in the current political climate, there's not much hope that things will improve. Let's hope someone out there actually cares about workers.
Thank you for sharing this enlightening (and depressing) article.
Comment · 8 years ago
and the papers mentioned below have yet more detail.
Comment · 8 years ago
However, I disagree about the lack of a connection between ORNL's work on MENNDL and scientific discovery. I'm going off of what ORNL told me, but according to them, using DL has been hard for scientists and this could make it easier. I am a writer, not an engineer, but here is how ORNL explains it: "Because scientific data often looks much different from the data used for animal photos and speech, developing the right artificial neural network can feel like an impossible guessing game for nonexperts. To expand the benefits of deep learning for science, researchers need new tools to build high-performing neural networks that don’t require specialized knowledge."
Their news release has more technical detail than I could put in my blog. https://www.ornl.gov/news/scaling-deep-learning-science
Comment · 8 years ago
You are right about the 2015 publication. I believe ORNL waited until it had results from a user (Fermilab) to release the information.
There are also two related papers:
-- one is about the Fermilab's neutrino research using MENNDL http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7966131/
-- and the other is about evolving deep neural nets in HPC:
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3146347.3146355
Comment · 8 years ago
Yuck. I felt slimy after reading this article. What female would participate in this?
Comment · 8 years ago
Good point about how essential AI will be for data centers.
Comment · 8 years ago
What a great idea! I hope my state (California) and others follow suit.
Comment · 8 years ago
As you can see in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjW1kIt5iQg there is some latency. Weinberg and Barnes are working to fix that, but I don't know details. Weinberg said he wants to gather more data from more users so the arm is more useful to more people.
Comment · 8 years ago
Wow, that's really interesting. Thanks for sharing this info.