Unless they find a way to use AI for 3d graphics in video games, these chips wont catch up with GPUs. I guess AI can be used to predict light propagation inside of complex geometry, but embedding that into 3d engine will need a lot of re-engineering, so I won't expect AI accelerators to be profitable in observable future. Same for self-driving cars.
The secret is that 8-bit float ops are replaced by 65k lookup table. A real FPU unit needs actual math,these TPUs are probably bunch of hardwired lookup tables with intruction decoder for lookup.
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Anonymous2016-10-30 16:42
Worse, its vectorized byte math
In a press conference, Google's VP for Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle confirmed that the TPU runs using 8-bit integer math
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Anonymous2016-10-30 16:51
>>2 >>3 >>4 >>5 >>6 why not just make your own thread? this is supposed to be about eggwing gro.
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Anonymous2016-10-30 16:52
tfw being world's best AI, forced to run on crippled 8-bit integer-only CPUs
>>7 We interrupt your memecast for special news: ROBOTS ALREADY USING TENSORFLOW The robot uses a prebuilt demo of TensorFlow called “Inception” that can recognize objects. Text to speech software allows the robot to verbally tell you what it sees. According to [Lukas] the robot cost about $100 — a far cry from the machines he used during his time at the Stanford Robotics Lab. http://hackaday.com/2016/10/09/tensorflow-robot-recognizes-objects/
