{"id":98890,"date":"2019-11-21T14:26:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-giant-superfast-ai-chip-is-being-used-to-find-better-cancer-drugs"},"modified":"2019-11-21T14:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:26:21","slug":"a-giant-superfast-ai-chip-is-being-used-to-find-better-cancer-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-giant-superfast-ai-chip-is-being-used-to-find-better-cancer-drugs","title":{"rendered":"A giant, superfast AI chip is being used to find better cancer drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-giant-superfast-ai-chip-is-being-used-to-find-better-cancer-drugs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But in the last few years, AI has changed the game. Deep-learning algorithms excel at quickly finding patterns in reams of data, which has sped up key processes in scientific discovery. Now, along with these software improvements, a hardware revolution is also on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Argonne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20191119005047\/en\/Argonne-National-Laboratory-Deploys-Cerebras-CS-1-World%E2%80%99s\">announced<\/a> that it has begun to test a new computer from the startup Cerebras that promises to accelerate the training of deep-learning algorithms by orders of magnitude. The computer, which houses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/f\/614193\/the-worlds-biggest-chip-is-bigger-than-an-ipad-and-will-help-train-ai\/\">the<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/f\/614193\/the-worlds-biggest-chip-is-bigger-than-an-ipad-and-will-help-train-ai\/\"> world\u2019s largest chi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/f\/614193\/the-worlds-biggest-chip-is-bigger-than-an-ipad-and-will-help-train-ai\/\">p<\/a>, is part of a new generation of specialized AI hardware that is only now being put to use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re interested in accelerating the AI applications that we have for scientific problems,\u201d says Rick Stevens, Argonne\u2019s associate lab director for computing, environment, and life sciences. \u201cWe have huge amounts of data and big models, and we\u2019re interested in pushing their performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in the last few years, AI has changed the game. Deep-learning algorithms excel at quickly finding patterns in reams of data, which has sped up key processes in scientific discovery. Now, along with these software improvements, a hardware revolution is also on the horizon. Yesterday Argonne announced that it has begun to test a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}