A nine-year-old from Taiwan is sent by mistake to a Kentucky reform school and given the toilets to clean. Thirty years later Jensen Huang is spending a billion dollars his investors want back on a feature for customers he admits do not exist. The feature was built by Ian Buck, a graduate student who had wired thirty-two games cards together to play Quake on a wall. Why a chip made for shading monsters turned out to be the right machine for Hinton's networks: a master chef, and a thousand line cooks.
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- In this chapter
- Jensen Huang, Shoichiro Irimajiri, Ian Buck, Patrice Simard, Dan Ciresan, Andrew Ng, Bryan Catanzaro
- The idea it builds
- A screen of dots and a layer of neurons are the same problem: thousands of small multiply-and-add sums, none of which waits for another.