April 2016 – Law and AI

Two stories this past week caught my eye. The first is Nvidia's revelation of the new, AI-focused Tesla P100 computer chip. Introduced at April's annual GPU Technology Conference, the P100 is the largest computer chip in history in terms of the number of transistors, "the product of around 2.5 billion worth of research and development at the hands of thousands of computer engineers." Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that the chip was designed and dedicated "to accelerating AI; dedicated to accelerating deep learning." But the revolutionary potential of the P100 is dependent on AI engineers coming up with new algorithms that can leverage the full range chip's capabilities.