Accelerating Transformation
Artificial Intelligence
Uli HomannCVP Cloud & AI
June 2019
Great AI Needs Great Compute
DNN Processing Units
EFFICIENCY
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FLEXIBILITY
Soft DPU(FPGA)
Control Unit (CU)
Registers
Arithmetic Logic
Unit (ALU)
CPUs GPUsASICsDPU
CerebrasEyerissGoogle TPUGraphcoreGroqIntel NervanaMythicWave ComputingetcMicrosoft
BrainWave
Baidu SDADeephi TechEff. Speech EngineTeradeepetc
Great AI Needs Great Data
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esData growth projectionsIDC predicts Global DataSphere will grow from 33 Zettabytes (ZB) in 2018 to 175 ZB by 2025
Figure 1: Annual size of the Global DataSphere175 ZB
Source: Data Age 2025, sponsored by Seagate with data from IDC Global DataSphere, Nov 2018
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DNA storage
Encoding
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Synthesis
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Preservation
Joint project between Microsoft and University of Washington
>1,000x denser than tape
2,000 years in ~10˚C
Station B at Princeton
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Great AI Needs Great Data But How Much do you Really Need
There are three main types of damage detected
ALGAE CRACKS RUST
Visualising the data
Recent Successes of Reinforcement Learning
“Closed-world” systems make simulating
millions of trials easy.
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It’s not easy!
Atari Games ~ 200M frames= ~77 Days @ 30 frames/sec Alpha Go ~ 130M self-plays
Pacman ~ 150M frames
Great AI Needs Great Values
Today’s debate
Fairness
Reliability & Safety
Source: Rand Corp. Driving to Safety; Kara & Paddock
Miles & years needed for to demonstrate autonomous vehicle reliability
Privacy & Security
We knew that if we could identify them in their second trimester, there’s a good chance we could capture them for years
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Inclusiveness
Economic Graph Research
Transparency HasAsthma(x) => LessRisk(x)
Accountability
“We can’t afford to look at this future with uncritical eyes.”– The Future Computed
Great AI Needs Great People
Microsoft Research AI(MSR AI)
Pool talent from multiple areas of AI
Natural language
Perception Learning Reasoning
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