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Nvidia's New AI Recreated "Pac-Man" from Scratch By Techtonic group We have witnessed the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) over the past few years. Now, it can  guide the military on the battlefield ,  write songs , and even  control an entire ship . However, this is certainly not the end of the possibilities that AI opens up. Nvidia has now proved that an AI can create a game just by watching gameplays of it. The Santa-Clara based GPU company recently  recreated  the popular retro-classic arcade game "Pac-Man", to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the game, using an AI model. The company's research team led by researcher Seung-Wook Kim took their own powerful new AI model, named GameGAN to create  a fully functional copy of Pac-Man that can run without an underlying game engine . The GameGAN is a first-of-its-kind neural network that can mimic a computer game by securing, what are called, generative adversarial networks a.k.a., GANs. I...

Nvidia Unveils New 'Ampere' Architecture, A100 GPU at GTC 2020 Keynote By Techtonic group Even though Nvidia's plans to hold a proper GTC keynote had to be canceled due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the company decided to unveil its products via a pre-recorded keynote presentation today. We were expecting the company to unveil enterprise related products along with its latest GPU architecture, and Nvidia didn't disappoint. The company has today unveiled its new 'Ampere' architecture for GPUs. Ampere is the company's 7nm architecture for its compute units and GPUs, and while the company didn't give away a lot of details around the architecture itself, it did announce a bunch of enterprise products that use the Ampere architecture. A100 GPU, DGX A100, HGX A100 The Nvidia A100 GPU is the company's first GPU to use the new Ampere architecture. The GPU packs in 54 billion transistors, and Nvidia is calling it  "the world's largest 7-na...