The document highlights the rapid growth of deep learning in artificial intelligence, showcasing five key insights including advancements in AI chips, applications in medicine and agriculture, and increasing investment interest from Wall Street. Notably, NVIDIA's technology is positioned as pivotal for training neural networks and enhancing healthcare solutions, while AI is already contributing to U.S. lettuce production. Additionally, IBM has amplified its cloud services with powerful deep learning capabilities, reflecting a broader trend of corporate focus on emerging technologies.

1. DEEP LEARNING TOP 5
Insights into the new computing model
April 7th, 2017

2. DEEP LEARNING IS THE FASTEST-GROWING FIELD IN
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI).

3. IT IS DRIVING SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENTS ACROSS
INDUSTRIES AND ENTERPRISES.

4. TOP 5
1. The State of Artificial Intelligence
2. Deep Learning Chips Giving Medicine a Shot in the Arm
3. How AI Helps Grow 10% of US Lettuce
4. IBM Cloud to Offer AI Computing with Latest NVIDIA Pascal GPUs
5. Wall Street Investors Taking Notice of AI Investments
HERE ARE THE “TOP FIVE” STORIES HIGHLIGHTING
HOW DEEP LEARNING AND AI ARE ACCELERATING
INNOVATION THIS WEEK …

5. THE STATE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
“NVIDIA GPUs, which initially targeted the gaming
industry, are now widely used for training deep
learning neural networks. Other big corporations
like Intel and Google have focused their efforts on
AI chips as well.”
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“And there we were with the GPU, a computing
model almost ideal for deep learning.”
- Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, NVIDIA

6. DEEP LEARNING CHIPS GIVING MEDICINE A SHOT
IN THE ARM
“The chip maker NVIDIA is riding the current
artificial-intelligence boom with hardware
designed to power cutting-edge learning
algorithms. And the company sees health care and
medicine as the next big market for its
technology. Kimberly Powell, who leads NVIDIA’s
efforts in health care, says the company is
working with medical researchers in a range of
areas and will look to expand these efforts in
coming years.”
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"More and more we’re visiting providers at hospitals
today, and they’re imagining new artificial-intelligence
applications. “
-Kimberly Powell, Deep Learning Director, NVIDIA

7. HOW AI HELPS GROW 10% OF US LETTUCE
“ If your lettuce was produced in the U.S., there’s
already a 10 percent chance AI helped grow it,
thanks to a Silicon Valley startup founded by a pair
of entrepreneurs. The duo have harnessed AI to
help farmers deal with one of their toughest
problems. Farmers remove planted seeds to ensure
that their produce will have enough room to grow,
a method known as “thinning.””
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“"“The machines are going to become smarter and
smarter, and they’re going to drive towards taking
action on a more individual plant-basis,”
-Lee Redden, CTO, Blue River Technology

8. IBM CLOUD TO OFFER AI COMPUTING WITH LATEST
NVIDIA PASCAL GPUS
“IBM Cloud today announced a major boost to its
cloud services, adding the power of Tesla
P100 GPUs and the NVIDIA deep learning platform
to their offerings. Tesla P100 is the world’s most
powerful data center GPU ever built, engineered
to deliver giant leaps in performance for deep
learning.”
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“As the AI era takes hold, demand continues to surge for
our GPU-accelerated computing platform in the cloud,”
-Ian Buck, GM for Accelerated Computing, NVIDIA

9. WALL STREET INVESTORS TAKING NOTICE OF
AI INVESTMENTS
“Lately, the corporate world and Wall
Street have begun to shift their focus
towards emerging technologies such as
robotics and artificial intelligence. The
growing use of robotics and AI in industries
from manufacturing to finance have
intrigued business types (or if you're cynical,
made them all jump on the bandwagon).”
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“"Digital Manufacturing has reached the tipping point, and
is now going mainstream,“
-Ben Uglow, Analyst, Morgan Stanley

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