We prepared a mini-conference on “machine learning” for our customers, students and the general public together with IBM, NVIDIA and DNS, which was held on Tuesday morning, 24 October 2017.\u00a0 The conference took place on the grounds of the CIIRC at the CTU.\u00a0\u00a0 Seventy participants had the opportunity to see presentations on machine learning and artificial intelligence, the practical benefits they offer and, above all, the future implications of their use – as predicted by scientists and specialists from IBM and NVIDIA.<\/p>\n
In the introduction, Petr Plod\u00edk from our company explained why it is now that we are talking about machine learning, why M Computers is organizing the conference and why it is being held on the grounds of the CIIRC at the CTU.\u00a0\u00a0 The introduction was followed by the presentations of guests from IBM and NVIDIA.<\/p>\n
The main star of the conference was Dr. Klaus Rindtorff, a scientist from the IBM Laboratory in B\u00f6lingen, Germany.\u00a0 As early as the 1990s, Dr. Klaus had been using neural networks to recognize and authenticate signatures in a project for a banking institution.\u00a0 In his presentation, he described the history of neural networks with alternating periods of interest and the progress and investments in these technologies in the “ice age”, in which the development of these technologies had frozen.\u00a0 It was interesting to trace back the development of the last years, which was demonstrated with the ImageNetChallenge competition, which is organized every year.\u00a0 It is an image recognition competition (150,000 images), in which the year-to-year increase in image recognition reliability by computers can be seen.\u00a0 This year, the computer has even surpassed the success rate of a human,\u00a0 and it has done so with an image processing speed exceeding 4000 images per minute on a single server.\u00a0 At the conclusion of his lecture, Dr. Klaus explained how the Watson-IBM computer, which answers questions in natural language, works.<\/p>\n
Another guest was Ralph Hinsche from NVIDIA. He presented his vision of how machine learning and artificial intelligence are changing the world.\u00a0\u00a0 He mentioned the new technologies announced by NVIDIA two weeks ago at a conference in Munich.\u00a0 He showed the listeners who were present at the conference the latest NVIDIA V100 accelerator, which has over 21 billion transistors, 5120 processors and a performance of 15.7 trillion operations with decimal numbers in a palm-sized box. He also presented the “Pegasus” Robotaxi drive PX, a computer based on artificial intelligence that is capable of driving a taxi (or so-called robo-taxi) at the highest level of the ASIL-D safety standard (learn more about the ASIL standard<\/a>).<\/p>\n We recommend viewing the main talk of the GTC Europe 2017 conference by Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA:<\/p>\n