Deeper Minds: Artificial Intelligence
① Human orchestras playing music composed by computers; machines learning in hours what took humans millennia; halls packed with thousands of people listening to computer-science talks in hushed reverence.
② All par for the course at this week's Neural Information Processing conference, the premier artificial-intelligence summit.
③ The conference revealed the increasing pace of development of AI, and of its spread into every conceivable industry.
④ That is most evident in the development of hardware.
⑤ Tesla, an electric-car maker, is working on its own chip to run AI algorithms, in partnership with AMD, a microprocessor manufacturer.
⑥ Nvidia, another chipmaker, will start selling the "Titan V", a $3,000 processor specially designed for training AI algorithms.
⑦ The next generation experimental-fusion reactor built by TAE, an energy firm, will be explicitly designed to produce data to feed into AI that will optimise the nuclear reaction.
⑧ The firm that will receive and process those data?
⑨ None other than Google.
▍生词好句
orchestra /ˈɔːkɪstrə/: n. 管弦乐队
millennium /mɪˈlɛnɪəm/: n. 一千年 (复数: millennia)
millennials: n. 千禧一代 (1981年至2000年之间出生的人)
be packed with: 挤满了
hushed: adj. 安静的
hush /hʌʃ/: n. 安静 / vt. 使……安静
reverence /ˈrɛv(ə)r(ə)ns/: n. 尊敬；敬意
be par for the course: 一切尽在意料之中的；不出所料的
neural /ˈnjʊər(ə)l/: adj. 神经的
algorithm /ˈalɡərɪð(ə)m/: n. 算法