find better cancer drug
A giant, superfast AI chip is being used to find better cancer drugs
A successful new AI chip will have to meet several criteria, says Stevens. At a minimum, it has to be 10 or 100 times faster than the general-purpose processors when working with the lab's AI models. Many of the specialized chips are optimized for commercial deep-learning applications, like computer vision and language, but may not perform as well when handling the kinds of data common in scientific research. "We have a lot of higher-dimensional data sets," Stevens says--sets that weave together massive disparate data sources and are far more complex to process than a two-dimensional photo.