NVIDIA has announced breakthroughs in language understanding that will now allow businesses to “engage more naturally with customers using real-time conversational artificial intelligence (AI).”
A company press release said NVIDIA’s AI platform was the 1st to train one of the most advanced AI language models — BERT — in less than an hour, & complete AI inference in just over 2 milliseconds.
This level of performance made it now possible for developers to use state-of-the-art language understanding for large-scale applications they can make available to hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide, said NVIDIA.
Early adopters of NVIDIA’s performance advances include Microsoft and some of the world’s most innovative startups, which are harnessing NVIDIA’s platform to develop highly intuitive, immediately responsive language-based services for their customers.
Until this point, it was extremely difficult for chatbots, intelligent personal assistants & search engines to operate with human-level comprehension due to the inability to deploy extremely large AI models in real time.
NVIDIA had addressed this challenge by adding key optimizations to its AI platform — achieving speed records in AI training & inference & building the largest language model of its kind to date.
AI services powered by natural language understanding are expected to grow exponentially in the coming years. Digital voice assistants alone are anticipated to climb from 2.5 billion to 8 billion within the next 4 years, according to Juniper Research.
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