Not quite up to date, but at least more recent.
Posted on 03/15/2018 1:44:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The billowing compute and data demands that spurred the oil and gas industry to be the largest commercial users of high-performance computing are now propelling the competitive sector to deploy the latest AI technologies. Beyond the requirement for accurate and speedy seismic and reservoir simulation, oil and gas operations face torrents of sensor, geolocation, weather, drilling and seismic data. Just the sensor data alone from one off-shore rig can accrue to hundreds of terabytes of data annually, but most of this remains unanalyzed, dark data.
Why? Because there just isn't enough compute capacity to crunch it all.
A collaboration between Nvidia and Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE) -- one of the world's largest oil field services companies -- kicked off this week to address these data challenges by applying deep learning and advanced analytics to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of energy exploration and distribution. The partnership leverages accelerated computing solutions from Nvidia, including DGX-1 servers, DGX Station and Jetson, combined with BHGE's fullstream analytics software and digital twins to target end-to-end oil and gas operations.
(Excerpt) Read more at enterprisetech.com ...
The ability of the NSA to analyze data would no doubt be surprising; their systems must already have implemented AI to process the worldwide data stream. I'm sure it would shock everyone, not least because its scale is so far beyond an individual human brain to manage.
The Folding@Home project is (was?) a voluntary program, where people installed software gadgets on their systems to use background CPU time, then eventually GPU time, to crunch numbers for that project.
A similar project exists for SETI data, and probably others.
I've always been amused by the claims that a given encryption method would require more time than the age of the universe to crack, considering how simple a job like that can be attacked using multiple CPUs, GPUs, virtual machines running on multiple hardware, etc.
Good data. Has anyone compiled additional data since 2003 to see if the trend continues?
Best guess is, the original author has, but as the OPEC strategy was to keep their product price-stable in the large and nearby European market, it's likely to have continued.
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Posted on 03/15/2018 7:53:45 AM PDT by NRx
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3639880/posts
That'll probably be built into OSes in the future -- something like a Paypal acc't, and if the box is clicked "okay" by the computer buyer, is online and on, the idle time will get rented out automatically.
I believe that the three letter agencies (and corporate versions such as FB and GOOG) have heavily invested in AI to manage data stream parsing.
Web advertising has changed so much I barely recognize, much less understand the best ways to foul up or to mislead robot advertisers.
I remember when a call center project in ~2000 was unable to backup 40 GB of data during the overnight shift, causing abends that broke the backup system.
40 Gb is like a Pixie stick to modern data slurpers.
Not quite up to date, but at least more recent.
I read a Terminator book, based in the same world as the movies, that use this as a premise.
One of the particularly horrible images from the book is millions of people trapped in AI driven cars all knowing they are being driven into an incoming missile’s nuclear blast zone by the AI. In the book the AI is being aided by “environmental activists” who are all voluntarily sterilizes as a part of the AI program of a “final solution” to the human problem.
Close but is not the scenario I was referring to - it is the one posited by Gregory Benford in his five novels beginning with “In the Ocean of Night”.
I guess we'll just have to learn to open the pod bay doors by ourselves.
All THIS and gridcoin; too!
My bank interested peaked at 4.7%; but now I'm piqued to find a higher rate elsewhere.
Oh, well. Homophones.
Transphones is the new mantra...
Thanks!
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