Intel To Launch A Lower Power Chip For Servers
Intel Corp has announced that it will be launching a low-power version of its server processors in a bid to expand into the data center with energy efficient-chips based on smartphone technology.
At an event on Monday with industry analysts and the media, Intel said it planned to offer a low-power version of the powerful Xeon processor with built-in features that will include connectivity and memory.
Intel are possibly trying to stay ahead of the competition from companies like Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Micro Circuits Corp and other smaller rivals, who are all trying to topple Intel from being the top chipmaker. Rival companies are working on components designed with low-power smartphone techonolgy licensed from ARM Holdings.
“Intel’s announcements demonstrate they will try to defend their turf against ARM-based servers and specialty processors,” said Pat Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. “Up until today, it was a bit of a guessing game for Intel that today has at least 95-percent server market share.”
Intel dominates the PC and server markets but has been slow in designing chips for the mobile market. This new announcement shows how CEO Brian Krzanich is willing to make major changes in how the company tackle different markets.
Diane Bryant is in charge of Intel’s data center business, she has said the new component will launch next year and will be based on the upcoming Broadwell version of Intel’s Xeon high-performance chips.
Data centers that combine lots of low-power chips instead of a few heavy-duty processors, will hopefully provide more power but for less money and use less electricity.
Intel are moving to integrate more features like memory and graphics onto its chips. It is known as “system on chips and is already used in smartphones and tablets. The company is also starting to produce “system on chips” for laptops.
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SOURCE: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/22/us-intel-servers-idUKBRE96L0P020130722
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ConceptNet 4 AI System as Smart as a 4-Year-Old
Mainstream culture teaches us that artificial intelligence systems are incredibly bright and able to outsmart many human beings. And if we take a look at trivia game master Watson or the Deep Blue program that managed to beat Gary Kasparov at chess, we will most likely agree with what we’re told.
So you will be surprised to learn that one of the top AI systems in use at the moment, called ConceptNet 4, actually has the IQ of a four-year-old and considerably less common sense.
It seems we’re still a long way from developing artificial intelligence as smart as HAL. And that’s a good thing, right?
ConceptNet 4 was subjected to a standard IQ test for children by researchers with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The AI system was developed by MIT and it works based on commonsense knowledge pooled from facts gathered from thousands of people across the worldwide web.
The AI system scored a similar result to a 4-year-old child, but it fared a lot better than any preschooler in some portions of the test. ConceptNet 4 had very good results in vocabulary and similarity recognition rests, but scored badly when it came to answering “why” questions.
The explanation is that while machines are very good at processing vast databases and collections of facts, they cannot be programmed yet to intuit the surrounding world without having a solid base of so-called implicit facts (obvious things we don’t even know we know) and being able to compute those facts into a commonsense response.
More specifically, an AI system knows water’s point of boiling or freezing, but it may not implicitly know that when it reaches those temperatures, the water is hot or cold, whereas a 4-year-old will know these things.
UIC scientists hope the results of the study will make it easier to identify ways of further improving the intelligence of AI systems. While we may still be a long way from programs such as 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL, researchers are working to develop an AI that would be able to answer comprehension questions like an eight-year-old would.
What do you think of the project? If successful, what would you like to see an ultra-smart AI system used for?
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