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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners
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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners

by David Dindi, Patrick D. Smith
October 2018
Beginner
362 pages
9h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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CPUs, GPUs, and other compute frameworks

Progress in AI has always been tied to our compute abilities. In this section, we will discuss CPUs and GPUs for powering AI applications, and how to set up your system to work with accelerated GPU processing. 

The main computational hardware in your computer is known as the central processing unit (CPUs); CPUs are designed for general computing workloads. While your local CPU can be used to train a deep learning model, you might find your computer hanging up on the training process for hours. When training AI applications on hardware, it's smarter to use the CPU's cousin, the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). GPUs are designed to process in parallel, just as an ANN process in parallel. As we learned ...

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