21日挑战第十一天：更快，更强的AI

如今，蓬勃发展的人工智能(AI)，正改变着我们的世界。

近期召开的有关人工智能的峰会(NIPS)更是揭开了这一高新技术的发展趋势；

无论是特斯拉还是英伟达，这些公司的行动也证明了AI 技术将更快、更高、更强！

人工智障已经翻篇儿了

Deeper Minds: Artificial Intelligence

Human orchestras playing music composed by computers; machines learning in hours what took humans millennia; halls packed with thousands of people listening to computer-science talks in hushed reverence.

All par for the course at this week's Neural Information Processing conference, the premier artificial-intelligence summit.

The conference revealed the increasing pace of development of AI, and of its spread into every conceivable industry.

That is most evident in the development of hardware.

Tesla, an electric-car maker, is working on its own chip to run AI algorithms, in partnership with AMD, a microprocessor manufacturer.

Nvidia, another chipmaker, will start selling the "Titan V", a $3,000 processor specially designed for training AI algorithms.

The next generation experimental-fusion reactor built by TAE, an energy firm, will be explicitly designed to produce data to feed into AI that will optimise the nuclear reaction.

The firm that will receive and process those data?

None other than Google.