Luminaries and up-and-comers in the artificial intelligence community came together this week to support the participation of women in AI and computer vision research and share the impact they are making on our world. Computer vision is one of the hottest areas of AI research. Scientists around the world are driving breakthroughs in object recognition, […]

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Self-driving cars will make transportation easy. But building an autonomous vehicle is arduous. That’s why we’ve partnered with AutonomouStuff, a supplier of components used within autonomy systems, to make DRIVE PX on Wheels available to researchers and developers working to revolutionize transportation. DRIVE PX on Wheels is a kit available in three flavors — advanced, […]

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Few moments are more magical than slipping on a headset and being instantly transported to an immersive virtual world. To help bring such experiences to more people, we’re showing some of NVIDIA Research’s latest work to heighten the magic of VR and AR at the next week’s SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference, in Los Angeles. We’ll […]

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A personal, flying cameraman. A computer that can read your mood. Facial recognition software powerful enough to catch criminals. Custom maps smart enough to help you find what you really want. An app that can help the blind, see. None of this is sci-fi. All these apps are real. And they’re just five of the […]

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Purple shirts, haircuts, and cats. How are these three all related? According to Andrew Ng, they all played a part in AI’s growing presence in our lives. Ng, formerly of Google and Baidu, and the founder of his new company, Deeplearning.ai, joined this week’s episode of the AI Podcast to share his thoughts on AI […]

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If you’re a content creator, you’re not just striving to do your best work. You want to make your best work better. At the SIGGRAPH conference, which runs July 31-Aug. 3, we’ll show you how — thanks to the latest AI, VR, and advanced rendering technologies. Bringing AI to Computer Graphics From Siri to Smart […]

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Some hollered. Others hooted. Other just bowed down before NVIDIA’s Tom Petersen as if he were some kind of digital deity. “Oh my gawd,” one gamer shouted. We didn’t know that giving away these USB drives — detailed, reduced-scale reproductions of our award-winning GeForce GTX Founder’s Edition graphics cards — would spark an epic round […]

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Speeding up inference — which helps trained neural networks make decisions and predictions faster — is a hot topic in AI research. No surprise, since quick, solid judgment calls can pay off handsomely. Humans who are good at this often rise to the top of their professions. Consider a financial trader who makes winning trades […]

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AI is reshaping the world. The researchers gathered at this week’s Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Honolulu are reshaping AI. That’s why NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang chose to light up a meetup of elite deep learning researchers at CVPR to unveil the NVIDIA Tesla V100, our latest GPU, based on our Volta architecture, […]

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How is sports strategy like self-driving cars and brain tumor diagnosis? They’re all the work of world-leading universities that are breaking new ground in artificial intelligence at the NVIDIA AI Labs. And they’ll all be on deck in the next few days at IEEE’s Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference, the premier annual computer […]

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Search just got smarter, thanks to AI and NVIDIA GPUs. Microsoft’s Bing now lets you search for images within images. You can even buy items you find there. Let’s say you’re a “Fast and Furious” fan, and want to trick out your ride with the gear you’ve seen on the big screen. Or you’re remodeling […]

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Some come to Hawaii with snorkels. Others come with scuba gear. And then there are those who come to dive really deep. In the days ahead, some of the greatest minds in artificial intelligence will be in Honolulu for the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference. Many attendees were arriving Friday afternoon, and […]

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Could an AI win a Nobel prize? That’s the provocative question a team of scientists are pondering after putting GPU-powered deep learning to work to accelerate their science, with impressive results. “AI is beating conventional methods,” Paul Wigley, a doctoral student at the Autralian National University told host Michael Copeland on this week’s edition of […]

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For those in developing countries with tuberculosis, the difference between life and death often comes down to having a physician with the expertise to properly read chest X-rays. And the numbers show that many are dying of the disease unnecessarily. TB has passed HIV/AIDS as the world’s top infectious killer, with the World Health Organization […]

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Think of it as a multiple choice test, with no wrong answers. Intel last week launched its new Skylake Xeon CPUs. AMD last month launched their next-generation EPYC CPU. These are both great options that strengthen the case for upgrading your server infrastructure now. Whichever path you choose, the latest CPU improvements bring a boost […]

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Think of it as a multiple choice test, with no wrong answers. Intel last week launched its new Skylake Xeon CPUs. AMD last month launched their next-generation EPYC CPU. These are both great options that strengthen the case for upgrading your server infrastructure now. Whichever path you choose, the latest CPU improvements bring a boost […]

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A quarter million VR enthusiasts have downloaded it. More than 25 communities have created mods for it. Researchers from Cornell University in upstate New York to Israel have even found new ways to meld the virtual and real worlds with it. A year after its release, VR Funhouse — our first game — has been […]

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Text. Video. Pictures. Audio. We’re used to searching the web for different kinds of content. Now, one startup is striving to add very different kind of search category: emotion. The first public pilot UK-based Emotions.Tech’s artificial emotional intelligence, launched in May, allows users to search according to how they want the results to make them […]

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Amazon Web Services today released GPU-powered Amazon EC2 G3 , featuring graphics acceleration powered by the NVIDIA GRID virtualization platform and NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPU accelerators. This powerful new GPU optimized instance allows architects, artists, product designers and other professionals to tackle the complex workloads that typically require high-end, desk-bound workstations. With the Amazon EC2 G3 […]

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Move over, Pied Piper, there’s hotter tech in town. If you didn’t get that reference from HBO’s Silicon Valley, tune in, because we’ve got the inside story on the latest gag on the show that everyone is buzzing about this year. And it comes with a side of mustard. On this week’s episode of the […]

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