Although IBM's hardware implementation does not support the current hotness in neural models, I still think that this is a big deal, both for applications with the current chip and also future improvements in even less required energy and smaller and more dense chips.
I was on a DARPA neural network tools advisory panel for a year in the 1980s, developed two commercial neural network products, and used them in several interesting applications. I more or less left the field in the 1990s but I did take Hinton's Coursera class two years ago and it is fun to keep up.
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Although IBM's hardware implementation does not support the current hotness in neural models, I still think that this is a big deal, both for applications with the current chip and also future improvements in even less required energy and smaller and more dense chips.
I was on a DARPA neural network tools advisory panel for a year in the 1980s, developed two commercial neural network products, and used them in several interesting applications. I more or less left the field in the 1990s but I did take Hinton's Coursera class two years ago and it is fun to keep up.