New Processor Chips Promise Faster Neural Network Learning

Deep neural networks (DNN), like Google's DeepMind or the IBM Watson, are amazing machines. They can be taught to do many mental tasks like a human, and they represent our best shot to actual artificial intelligence. The challenge has always been training and teaching these machines. For most of the tasks they have to do, the machines tie up big-ticket supercomputers or data centers for days at a time. But scientists from IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center are poised to change all that.