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I don't really understand what these new chips accelerate - are they useful for anything else when this current machine learning fad wears off?
by voltagex_ 8y ago
I don't really understand what these new chips accelerate - are they useful for anything else when this current machine learning fad wears off?
- coding123 8y agoHmm, while talking about ML might be a fad it's going to be part of the plumbing now - like SQL.
- IshKebab 8y agoML actually works for real applications like speech recognition, face recognition, image captioning, etc. While it might be over-hyped it's not a fad that will "wear off". Google aren't going to stop using deep learning for speech recognition and go back to the old hidden markov model technique that barely worked.
- voltagex_ 8y agoThanks - that makes sense. Guess it's probably best phrased the other way, that these chips are more useful than say a physics accelerator or a cryptocurrency mining ASIC.