… Simulation tools have become accurate enough to be useful for training, and access to the tooling that once required a specialized lab is now widely available, much of it open source. “To get into robotics, you no longer need a Ph.D.,” he says. …
… The silicon lottery’s existence has been known since at least 2022, when researchers at the University of Wisconsin tied it to variations in the performance of GPU-dependent supercomputers . Li and her colleagues figured that the effect would be even more pronounced for AI cloud customers. …
… Latency remains a barrier, but his group is researching ways to make AI decoders more efficient and smaller so that they can fit on an FPGA, cutting response times. …
… Panetta needed a larger team to help conduct the research, so she asked her undergraduate students if they wanted to participate. “Female students flocked to me because they could relate to the work I was doing, loved how their skills could benefit humanity, and didn’t see me as the classic nerd pr… …