Toronto, Nov 14 (PTI) Scientists are developing anartificial intelligence (AI) system that breaks free from theinternet and cloud computing, and provides greater privacy tousers.
New deep-learning AI software produced with thattechnology is compact enough to fit on mobile computer chipsfor use in everything from smartphones to industrial robots.
That would allow devices to operate independent of theinternet while using AI that performs almost as well astethered neural networks.
"We feel this has enormous potential," said AlexanderWong, from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
"This could be an enabler in many fields where people arestruggling to get deep-learning AI in an operational form,"Wong said.
The use of stand-alone deep-learning AI could lead tomuch lower data processing and transmission costs.
Deep-learning AI, which mimics the human brain byprocessing data through layers and layers of artificialneurons, typically requires considerable computational power,memory and energy to function.
Researchers took a page from evolutionary forces innature to make that AI far more efficient by placing it in avirtual environment, then progressively and repeatedlydepriving it of resources.
The deep-learning AI responds by adapting and changingitself to keep functioning each time computational power andmemory are taken away.
"These networks evolve themselves through generations andmake themselves smaller to be able to survive in theseenvironments," said Mohammad Javad Shafiee, from theUniversity of Waterloo. PTI SNE MHNSNE.
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