I remember HoloLens being announced to be available in "windows 10 timeframe". Still awaiting (EDIT:) Cheaper consumer version.
They're not really focused on making a consumer version, they're trying to turn it into an enterprise product first
Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor
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#12I used a Hololens and it was awesome (it fit over my glasses). Inference on Hololens could make you do so much more. Maybe you could use it to take scans of parts from a CNC or the CNC tool and create a system that could tell you if a similar piece will fail in the future. From what I have seen compared to Google Glass I think it could be possible for richer interactions and also it uses both eyes. But, I haven't heard any Enterprise users use Hololens.
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#13Is it time to recognize that "AI" is the meaningless buzzword of 2017? "Nothing is cooler because it is cyber." -- J.D. Falk, RIP.
How is AI meaningless? I mean, I guess the term can be seen as silly, but I mentally map it to "statistical computing."
[edit] Since I'm getting down votes, can someone clarify? I wasn't being contrarian with the above comment. Is my mental map of what AI means as an industry term incorrect?
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#14Serious question: what is an AI coprocessor technically? Some machine learnt models burned on a chip? Or some kind of a neural net with updatable weights?
It is not well documented by anyone. However, the expectation is that it is a matrix or convolution coprocessor, as this is a common operation in deep neural networks (for both inference and training). For instance, NVIDIA says they are supporting 4x4 convolutions with the tensor unit.
Re: Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor
#15Is it time to recognize that "AI" is the meaningless buzzword of 2017? "Nothing is cooler because it is cyber." -- J.D. Falk, RIP.
AI isn't a buzzword, it's been around since 1937 - it's a collective term for all learning algorithms, in this case on-chip DNN
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#16Any idea who makes it? It's probably close in architecture to GPUs, the kind of thing Nvidia and AMD are positioned to capitalise on.
I suspect it will have more in common with mobile GPUs than the big iron ASICs that come from NVIDIA or AMD.
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#17Is it time to recognize that "AI" is the meaningless buzzword of 2017? "Nothing is cooler because it is cyber." -- J.D. Falk, RIP.
How is AI meaningless? I mean, I guess the term can be seen as silly, but I mentally map it to "statistical computing." [edit] Since I'm getting down votes, can someone clarify? I wasn't being contrarian with the above comment. Is my mental map of what AI means as an industry term incorrect?
Any term/phrase can be rendered meaningless by overuse and misuse. The person you are responding to isn't claiming AI, as it actually is and what it actually means, is meaningless. They are claiming that "AI" the phrase is becoming meaningless.
Re: Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor
#18Serious question: what is an AI coprocessor technically? Some machine learnt models burned on a chip? Or some kind of a neural net with updatable weights?
One example is: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04760
There are many potential designs for these things, but the first gen TPU is one that works, is in production, and has been described in a paper. But you have to differentiate if you mean an inference engine, or something that can also do training. For HoloLens, it's probably going to be an inference unit, which means it'll possibly look something like a TPU, perhaps with more specific hardware support optimized for convolutions (which are very important for visual processing DNNs these days), as the NVidia tensor units are.
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#19The article mentions a demonstration of hand segmentation made at a conference, here's a short video of it:
https://mspoweruser.com/microsofts-next-version-hololens-wil...
Re: Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor
#20Is it time to recognize that "AI" is the meaningless buzzword of 2017? "Nothing is cooler because it is cyber." -- J.D. Falk, RIP.
How is AI meaningless? I mean, I guess the term can be seen as silly, but I mentally map it to "statistical computing." [edit] Since I'm getting down votes, can someone clarify? I wasn't being contrarian with the above comment. Is my mental map of what AI means as an industry term incorrect?
AI doesn't have to be statistical. It can be rule-based, for example. The reason it's useless is that knowing your headset has "AI" in it doesn't tell you anything about its functionality.