Nvidia To Train 100,000 Developers In 'Deep Learning' AI To Bolster Healthcare Research

Artificial Intelligence (AI) pioneer Nvidia has announced it will train 100,000 developers in "deep learning" to bolster health care research and improve treatment in diseases like cancer. Deep learning is Nvidia's term for machine learning, the idea of pushing computers to learn the way a human would in order to progress what many are calling the next revolution in technology – machines that "think" like humans. Over the past decade, it's given us self-driving cars, practical speech recognition, effective web search, and a vastly improved understanding of the human genome. In the past, cancer research institutes have looked into using Nvidia's latest advances in AI and deep learning to help pathologists with their overwhelming tasks. One project, Led by Andrew Beck, associate professor of pathology and director of bioinformatics at BIDMC, used an Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU supercomputer chip to speed up the process of training their computational models in breast cancer diagnosis.