In this
episode of Radio Free HPC, Dan, Henry, and Shahin start with a spirited discussion of IBM’s recent
announcement regarding their crowd sourced weather prediction application. Henry was dubious as to whether Big Blue could get access to the data they need in order to truly put out a valuable product. Dan had questions about the value of the crowd sourced data and how it could be scrubbed in order to be useful. Shahin was pretty favorable towards IBM’s plans and believes that they will solve the problems that Henry and Dan raised.
IBM came up again in the show as the boys kick around IBM’s
quantum computing commercial system. Shahin brought out the point that for a market that has few applications and success stories, it attracted nearly every big vendor in the business.
Catch of the Week:
Henry told the guys about a new
security flaw as pointed out by Krebs, this one concerning an exploit of credit cards.
Shahin talked about the newly proposed
Deep500 benchmark, designed to compare deep learning and inference performance.
Dan discussed a recent
interview with a VC who believed that by 2035, more than 40% of jobs world wide would be taken over by AI. This prompted a discussion of how technology has impacted employment and the economy in the past and how the accelerating pace of economic displacement in the era of AI is much quicker than in any other time.
We end the episode by denouncing attorneys.
