Oracle Magazine, Jan/Feb 2018
ORACLE MAGAZINE JANUARY FEBRUARY 2018 42 solve problems in medical diagnostics factory automation pharmaceutical research text analysis stock picking and even playing games such as chess and Go However the results were rarely scalable to massive deployments leaving AI out of the mainstream Things have changed with several breakthroughs in microprocessors cloud computing databases and algorithms coming together GPUs In terms of microprocessors graphics processing units GPUs chips initially designed for playing computer games and doing 3D modeling excel at the complex matrix oriented math required for neural networks machine learning and image processing In fact GPUs are significantly more efficient by orders of magnitude than general purpose central processing units CPUs Today GPUbased servers form the underpinning of modern AI processing systems Cloud technology Cloud computing has brought massive amounts of processing power storage and bandwidth to enterprise developers With special cloud computing services built with GPU based servers high powered AI has suddenly become accessible both for developers to experiment with and for corporations to deploy as complete applications Helping to drive both proof of concept projects and line of business initiatives for Oracle customers are the capabilities built into the new Oracle Artificial Intelligence Platform Cloud Service Oracle AI Platform Cloud Service running on GPU based servers Algorithms Driving the intelligence behind AI are complex algorithms for processing tremendous quantities of structured and unstructured data Popular algorithms such as the Caffe deep learning framework Jupyter Notebook data cleansing and modeling library Keras neural networks API NumPy high performance array processing library scikit learn data mining and machine learning library and TensorFlow library for machine intelligence make AI accessible to enterprise developers Thanks to these libraries coders and data scientists no longer need a PhD in applied AI to make heads or tails of advanced techniques Nobody should pretend that AI is easy to code but its becoming easier for enterprises to utilize thanks to platforms such as Oracle AI Platform Cloud Service and its support for popular algorithms and frameworks And then of course there is the data itself The emergence of the internet sparked a huge
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