Intel AI boss: It's time to move from brute force to more efficient computing

The common narrative of artificial intelligence is that it has finally taken off in recent years because there was enough data -- from mega repositories like Google -- and enough computing power through racks of servers equipped with fast processors and GPUs. That's not incorrect, but it's too simplistic to describe the future of machine learning and other forms of AI. That was the message from Intel's CTO of AI products, Amir Khosrowshahi, at VentureBeat's Transform 2018 conference outside San Francisco today. The challenge now is optimizing the whole process. Better algorithms require less computing and can draw accurate inferences from less data, said Khosrowshahi, cofounder of AI company Nervana Systems, which Intel acquired in August 2016.