Machine learning research is an expensive and energy-hungry business. Training a machine learning model can generate carbon emissions equivalent to building and driving five cars over their lifetimes. But why? Artificial neural networks learn by adjusting weights of parameters and connections until an output matches an answer; for example, an algorithm can play a game […]
In “a significant step forward in the pursuit of general-purpose algorithms” that “are able to deal with the messiness and complexity of the real world”, Google DeepMind‘s new reinforcement learning algorithm, MuZero, which like its predecessor AlphaGo uses lookahead search, can achieve superhuman levels of prowess at Go, chess and video games without any prior […]
If you are not already familiar with it, Omniverse is NVIDIA’s new multi-GPU, real-time simulation and collaboration platform for 3D production pipelines. In this newly-published video tutorial, NVIDIA’s Senior Director of Software Damien Fagnou gives an introduction to Omniverse Kit and shows how developers can leverage this powerful toolkit to create new Omniverse Apps and […]
This 4K 60 fps restored footage dates from 1895 and was filmed by Auguste and Louis Lumière, acknowledged as true pioneers in the development of cinema and cinematography. It shows the Lumière family embarking on a holiday trip.
In an article for Forbes about the march of AI, machine learning and the technology that underpins both, author Stephen McBride refers to NVIDIA as “America’s most important company”. But why? Speed is key to training machine learning models cost effectively, and CPUs process slowly, so GPUs made by NVIDIA and companies like it are […]
NVIDIA Omniverse is a powerful, multi-GPU, real-time simulation and collaboration platform for 3D production pipelines based on Pixar’s Universal Scene Description and NVIDIA RTX. For digital artists, the Omniverse possesses similar functionality to the Git collaboration platform so favoured by software developers today. USD is much more than a file format, it is a rich scene representation […]