How big compute is powering the deep learning rocket ship

Subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. Specialists describe deep learning as akin to a rocketship that needs a really big engine (a model) and a lot of fuel (the data) in order to go anywhere interesting. To get a better understanding of the issues involved in building compute systems for deep learning, I spoke with one of the foremost experts on this subject: Greg Diamos, senior researcher at Baidu. Diamos has long worked to combine advances in software and hardware to make computers run faster.