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Artificial Intelligence: Moore’s Law Combined with AI and Applied to Everything will Make us All Rich

By Dick Weisinger

Moore’s Law says that every two years that the number of transistors packed onto a dense integrated circuit will double. Since 1975, Moore’s Law has held relatively true. We may be running into technologic barriers that will prevent it from…

Protein Folding: Google AI’s AlphaFold to Revolutionize BioEngineering

By Dick Weisinger

At the end of 2020, Google AI announced a program called AlphaFold that they developed to determine the 3D shape of a protein from its amino-acid sequence. The prediction of protein shape is expected to greatly assist life science and…

AI Chips: Special-Purpose Chips Accelerate New Algorithms

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence is being used everywhere, but so far the technology has been built on general purpose CPU and GPU computing chips. The next generation of AI will be based on special-purpose, much more efficient computer chips for AI. Today’s…

Artificial Intelligence: Open Source and Open Data Team Up

By Dick Weisinger

Late last year, two AI groups jointed forces to create an open source clearinghouse for projects related to AI, Machine Learning (ML), data, and analysis. LF AI Foundation and Open Data Platform Initiative (ODPi), previously separate Linux Foundation projects, merged…

Artificial Intelligence: Designing Accurate Benchmarks

By Dick Weisinger

As both startups and more established chip makers design and build computer chips that target the acceleration of the processing of AI algorithms, benchmarking becomes very important as a way to compare the capabilities of the different chips. Until recently…