> program seeks to create no-human-in-the-loop hardware generators and compilers to enable fully automated creation of ML Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)
Of course it's a fairly obvious use of ML/AI. There are just so many fascinating ways this can play out in the future - it's going to be an interesting ride!
Note also, Olofsson is the founder of Adapteva [i].
I guess they want silicon for different uses. Embedded with low power consumption (on a soldier/handheld for example), in a vehicle, in a datacenter, etc.
With each situation, your need for precision can vary, and along with it the requirement for processing power.
A model tuned for 75% accuracy is lighter and faster to run (fewer layers) vs 85% (several times bigger, slower). I've made up the numbers to illustrate a point. This is anecdotal and I'm not an ML expert. But here's some evidence:
It’d be nice if they implemented TCP over that 400Kbps w/ 60% accuracy. Would be a nice projection of what sort of loss and efficiency should be expected.
I did a deep-dive into RTML on Twitter[0][1] just now after seeing this post, and I hope to bring some context and clarity to this project, which is done in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF).
In brief, Professor Sachin Sapatnekar (ACM Fellow [2016], University of Minnesota, College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) has been awarded a $2.2M grant from DARPA, “to build open-source hardware generators for a range of machine learning algorithms that process data in real time.”
Interesting, I hadn't heard the Parallela name in years. I remember them making some utterly unrealistic promises about close to triple digit cpu core sbc's back in the first half of the 2010's and that was that.
Only related to ‘low-power’ AI I recently came across Ogma[1] And though the combination of online learning and something that works on a Raspberry Pi was fascinating. Surprised it’s not appeared on here before
Of course it's a fairly obvious use of ML/AI. There are just so many fascinating ways this can play out in the future - it's going to be an interesting ride!
Note also, Olofsson is the founder of Adapteva [i].
[i] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva