Called Summit, the supercomputer has a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second (or 200 petaflops), and is eight times more powerful than the lab's previous top-ranked system, Titan. For some scientific applications, says ORNL, Summit will be capable of more than three billion billion mixed-precision calculations per second, providing unprecedented computing power for research in energy, advanced materials, artificial intelligence (AI), and other domains, enabling scientific discoveries that were previously impractical or impossible. "Today's launch of the Summit supercomputer demonstrates the strength of American leadership in scientific innovation and technology development," said Secretary of Energy Rick Perry on the announcement. "It's going to have a profound impact in energy research, scientific discovery, economic competitiveness and national security." "I am truly excited by the potential of Summit, as it moves the nation one step closer to the goal of delivering an exascale supercomputing system by 2021." said Perry.

Recently members of our development team here at Twipe attended the AWS Summit in Berlin and came back with new insights on machine learning. Coupled with the call from Benedict Evans at GEN Summit to change the way we talk about artificial intelligence, it's time to make sure we're all on the same page when it comes to AI, ML, and all the other important acronyms you hear in every conversation about the future of news these days.

In the spirit of Christmas, we're going to count down to the new year with the 12 Days of AI, bringing you a new, festive AI post every day! What better way to kick off 2018 than to look back at the RE•WORK highlights of 2017 and celebrate some of our successes of the past 12 months. This year saw RE•WORK hosting more events and bringing our globally renowned Summits to new locations. Our first ever Canadian Summit this year took place in Montreal, the'Silicon Valley of AI', and was one of our biggest events to date with over 600 attendees over the two days. We were fortunate enough to be joined by the'Godfathers of AI', Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun and Geoffrey Hinton who appeared on a panel together for the first time ever.

Qualcomm is continuing to place emphasis on the wearables segment, with senior director of Product Management for Qualcomm Atheros Pankaj Kedia telling media that the chip giant will be "doubling" its play in the market. "We have seen public announcements from some of our competitors that they are exiting the wearables space; Qualcomm is doubling our investment, because we are winning today and we intend to continue," Kedia said during the Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong. Over the next two to three years, you will really see growth around all of this." Kedia said Qualcomm has a cyclical relationship in wearables market growth, increasing its investments alongside growth while in return driving the market with these investments. "Because we are investing in wearable-specific chipsets, we are able to drive market growth, and we are able to do that in a leadership fashion where a majority of wearables shipping today are based on Qualcomm," he said.

Dawn Meyerriecks, the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director for technology development, said this week the CIA currently has 137 different AI projects, many of them with developers in Silicon Valley. These range from trying to predict significant future events, by finding correlations in data shifts and other evidence, to having computers tag objects or individuals in video that can draw the attention of intelligence analysts. Officials of other key spy agencies at the Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington this week, including military intelligence, also said they were seeking AI-based solutions for turning terabytes of digital data coming in daily into trustworthy intelligence that can be used for policy and battlefield action. "If we were to attempt to manually exploit the commercial satellite imagery we expect to have over the next 20 years, we would need eight million imagery analysts," Robert Cardillo, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said in a speech in June.

Watch AlphaGo and the world's number one Go player, Ke Jie, explore the mysteries of the game together in the second of three classic 1:1 matches.

At the Summit, I had the opportunity to share some thoughts on computer vision, and its impact on financial services. From the keyboard, to voice, to automation through the camera lens, inputs are changing exponentially. Activity using computer vision input has increased across the general technology landscape. As financial services players attempt to get ahead of the curve, what is the potential for computer vision? We think computer vision is most likely to transform insurance, commerce, capital markets, and banking.

Spectators watch the world's top-ranked Go player, Ke Jie, square off against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China, on Tuesday. Spectators watch the world's top-ranked Go player, Ke Jie, square off against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China, on Tuesday. In the first of three matches with the world's No. 1 Go player, a Google artificial intelligence program claimed victory Tuesday. It won the round by just a fraction of a point in Wuzhen, China, but the win was enough to leave its grandmaster opponent impressed and thoroughly confounded by the result. Last year, after Google's AlphaGo dispatched a human grandmaster in the notoriously complex board game for the first time, 19-year-old Ke Jie expressed confidence he wouldn't share the same fate, according to The New York Times.

Our first Machine Intelligence event in Paris will be kicked off at Numa and will cover the following topics: deep learning, NLP, computer vision, voice recognition, self-driving car and jet and how they apply to different industries. From psychology to medicine, global policy, or even how can we prevent terrorist attacks. We are happy to announce that Snips's COO Yann Lechelle will be speaking on the following topics: "Voice First IoTs need AI Privacy" and Chatbot vs. Assistant myth. Afterward, he will also join the closing panel to discuss AI as well as entrepreneurial activity in France with other entrepreneurs and investors. If you are interested in speaking about machine learning and artificial intelligence, feel free to contact us.

The 2017 Global Future Network Development Summit was held on April 17. Artificial intelligence based on big data will play an important role in the future network, besides SDN & NFV, Liu Yunjie, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of Chinna Unicom Science & Technology Commission, and president of Jiangsu Future Networks Innovation Institute noted at the Summit. "SDN gives the Internet a'brain', and artificial intelligence makes the brain smarter", Mr. Liu said," We see great challenges in this."