[FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

[Marcus Daniels]

I haven't asked about pricing and availability, but Mythic has evaluation systems.

https://www.mythic-ai.com/product/evaluation-system/

There are not commercially available devices from IBM yet.  I'm not at liberty to give further details.   
I like this approach because it is obvious how to use it vs. the new spiking neural net stuff from Intel (and also from IBM) is more speculative w.r.t. applications.

Quantum computers are all analog machines in practice.

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Maybe I'm just incompetent today. But what PCM devices did they use? Internal IBM research devices? Or did they only use the simulator (https://github.com/IBM/aihwkit)? Are there commercial PCM chips yet?

On 10/1/21 7:34 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Companies like Mythic and IBM have developed analog devices for energy- efficient deep learning.   Noise and low precision are often used as part of ML training protocols anyway.    Here they did careful side-by-side testing to quantify the impact of going analog.
> 
> https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2021.675741/full <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2021.675741/full>
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> Or perhaps the proposition is that CS people (for example) can’t appreciate complexity that where the generative rules are unknown or obscure?   Sure that horse is fast, but how can I put a new engine in it?

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