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  • Matrix math is just stupid for whatever you pipe through it. It does the input, and gives an output.

    Indeed.

    That is exactly what all these “NPU” co processing cores are about from AMD, Intel, and to a further subset Amazon and Google on whatever they’re calling their chips now. They are all about an input and output for math operations as fast as possible.

    Yes, they are all matrix math accelerators, and none of which have any FPGA aspects.


  • wewbull@feddit.uktoTechnology@lemmy.worldDoes current AI represent a dead end?
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    I know exactly what they are. I design CPUs for a living, use FPGAs to emulate them, and have worked on GPUs and many other ASICs in the past.

    FPGAs can accelerate certain functions, yes, but neural net evaluation is basically massive matrix multiplies. That’s something that GPUs are already highly optimised for. Hence, why I asked what circuit you’d put on the FPGA. Unless you can accelerate the algorithmic evaluation by several orders of magnitude the inefficiency of FPGAs Vs ASICs will cripple you.


  • I don’t really see how FPGA has a role to play here. What circuit are you going to put on it. If it’s tensor multipliers, even at low precision, a GPU will be an order of magnitude faster just on clock speed, and another in terms of density.

    What we’ve got right now has almost nothing to do with python, and everything to do with the compute density of GPUs crossing a threshold. FPGAs are lower density and slower.


  • They were using oil tankers that were designed for river use on the black sea. Three of them snapped in two leaving a huge oil slick which they’re not bothering to clean up.

    Then, a cargo ship on route to Syria to evacuate russian bases of equipment had its engine explode near Spain. That ship sank leaving the Spanish to rescue the crew.

    The first case is using an inappropriate vessel. The second case appears to be that ships in this shadow fleet are no longer visiting any ports apart from russian ones and so don’t need to have their paperwork in shape. No paperwork means no maintenance. No maintenance means engine go boom.