Accelerating deep learning to superhuman proportions - Enterprise IT Watch Blog

Deep learning delivers extraordinary cognitive powers in the never-ending battle to distill sense from data at ever larger scales. But high performance doesn't come cheap. Deep learning relies on the application of multilevel neural-network algorithms to high-dimensional data objects. As such, it requires that fast-matrix manipulations in highly parallel architectures in order to identify complex, elusive patterns--such as objects, faces, voices, threats, etc.–amid big data's "3 V" noise. As evidence for the technology's increasingly superhuman cognitive abilities, check out research projects such as this that use it to put the Turing test to shame.