Music and engineering were completely separate parts of Bryce Denney’s life until the pandemic hit. By day, the Massachusetts-based NVIDIA engineer helped test processors. On nights and weekends, he played piano chamber music and accompanied theater troupes that his wife, Kathryn, sang in or led. It was a good balance for someone who graduated with Read article >

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The upcoming election isn’t the only thing on lawmakers’ minds. Several congressional representatives have been grappling with U.S. AI policy for years, and their work is getting closer to being made into law. The issue is one of America’s greatest challenges and opportunities: What should the U.S. do to harness AI for the public good, Read article >

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In a conversation that ranged from the automation of software to holodeck-style working environments, NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang explained why now is the moment to back a new generation of startups as part of this week’s GPU Technology Conference. Jeff Herbst, vice president of business development and head of the NVIDIA Inception startup Read article >

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Pindar Van Arman is a veritable triple threat — he can paint, he can program and he can program robots that paint. The AI Podcast · Art(ificial) Intelligence: Pindar Van Arman Builds Robots that Paint - Ep. 129 Van Arman first started incorporating robots into his artistic method 15 years ago to save time. He Read article >

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Ajit Pai recalls a cold February day, standing in a field at the Wind River reservation in central Wyoming with Arapaho Indian leaders, hearing how they used a Connecting America grant to link schools and homes to gigabit fiber Internet. It was one of many technology transformations the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Read article >

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There are major shifts happening in the media and entertainment industry. With the rise of streaming services, there’s a growing demand for high-quality programming  and an increasing need for fresh content to satisfy hundreds of millions of subscribers. At the same time, teams are often collaborating on complex assets using multiple applications while working from Read article >

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AI is a retailer’s automated helper, acting as a smart assistant to suggest the perfect position for products in stores, accurately predict consumer demand, automate order fulfillment in warehouses, and much more. The technology can help retailers grow their top line, potentially improving net profit margins from 2 percent to 6 percent — and adding Read article >

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For researchers like Max Zimmerman, it was a welcome pile-on to tackle a global pandemic. A million citizen scientists donated time on their home systems so the Folding@home consortium could calculate the intricate movements of proteins inside the coronavirus. Then a team of NVIDIA simulation experts combined the best tools from multiple industries to let Read article >

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Hate hunting and pecking away at your keyboard every time you have a quick question? You’ll love this. Microsoft’s Bing search engine has turned to Turing-NLG and NVIDIA GPUs to suggest full sentences for you as you type. Turing-NLG is a cutting-edge, large-scale unsupervised language model that has achieved strong performance on language modeling benchmarks. Read article >

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On land, underwater, in the air — even underground and on other planets — new autonomous machines and the applications that run on them are emerging daily. Robots are working on construction sites to improve safety, they’re on factory floors to enhance logistics and they’re roaming farm rows to pick weeds and harvest crops. As Read article >

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