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Hugging Face and Intel – Driving Towards Practical, Faster, Democratized and Ethical AI solutions

Transformer models are the powerful neural networks that have become the standard for delivering advanced performance behind these innovations. But there is a challenge: Training these deep learning models at scale and doing inference on them requires a large amount of computing power. This can make the process time-consuming, complex, and costly. Today we will talk about all kinds of issues around accessible, production level AI solutions. We also talk about ethical questions around AI usage and why open, democratized AI solutions are important. Learn more: Hugging Face https://huggingface.co Hugging Face Hub https://huggingface.co/models Fast Inference on Large Language Models: BLOOMZ on Habana Gaudi2 Accelerator https://huggingface.co/blog/habana-gaudi-2-bloom Accelerating Stable Diffusion Inference on Intel CPUs https://huggingface.co/blog/stable-diffusion-inference-intel Transformer Performance with Intel & Hugging Face Webinar https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/videos/optimize-end-to-end-transformer-model-performance.html#gs.pomt5k Intel Explainable AI Tools https://github.com/IntelAI/intel-xai-tools Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/openvino-toolkit/overview.html Intel AI Analytics Toolkit (AI Kit) https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/ai-analytics-toolkit.html Guests: Julien Simon – Chief Evangelist @ Hugging Face Ke Ding – Principal Engineer @ Intel

oneAPI in Practice – How Digital Cortex is leveraging oneAPI to provide scalable, on-demand access to xPU processors

As the world moves towards more specialized hardware like GPUs, Google TPUs, Habana Gaudi (HPU), FPGAs, etc, enabling developers to run their code on the most efficient hardware can be challenging. Intel oneAPI and xPUs are at the vanguard of this shift and Digital Cortex is leading the way forward with its comprehensive set of products built on these emerging technologies. By providing unprecedented access to compute across varying architectures and platforms, Digital Cortex is helping developers unlock new levels of performance while simplifying development processes. We talk to Digital Cortex CEO Charlie Wardell to learn how Digital Cortex is building on top of the oneAPI vision to bring a marketplace of compute kernels to their platform that can run anywhere. Charlie also shares his thoughts on entrepreneurship and what made him make the leap from working in a company to founding a company. Learn more: Digital Cortex digital-cortex.io oneAPI oneapi.io Intel oneAPI toolkits intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html#gs.rahkwl Guest: Charlie Wardell – CEO of Digital Cortex

Ray Tracing, Path Tracing & Path Guiding – Finding the Light (efficiently) with Chaos and OpenPGL

Over the last couple of decades, the world of computer graphics has been growing at an amazing rate.  From animated movies to video games, consumers have reaped the benefits of these technological advances.  One of the latest algorithmic advances in rendering is path guiding.  Learn about path guiding and how you can take advantage of this cool technology using Chaos V-Ray and the Intel Path Guiding Library (OpenPGL) Learn more: Chaos V-Ray: chaos.com Intel Open Path Guiding Library (OpenPGL) Github github.com/OpenPathGuidingLibrary/openpgl Paper: A 5D Tree to Reduce the Variance of Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Author: Eric Lafortune researchgate.net/publication/2574746_A_5D_Tree_to_Reduce_the_Variance_of_Monte_Carlo_Ray_Tracing Paper: Importance driven path tracing using the photon map. Author: Henrik Jensen graphics.stanford.edu/~henrik/papers/ewr6.html   Paper: Robust Fitting of Parallax-Aware Mixtures for Path Guiding Author: Lukas Ruppert dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386569.3392421 Paper: Practical Path Guiding for Efficient Light-Transport Simulation (a.k.a. Practical Path Guiding) Author: Thomas Müller dl.acm.org/doi/10.1111/cgf.13227 Paper: Path Guiding in Production Author: Jikra Vorba cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jirka/path-guiding-in-production/2019/index.htm See also: oneapi.com Guests: Dian Nikolov – Software Engineer @ Chaos Sebastian Herholz – Software Engineer @ Intel

Quantum Computing, How Intel is Driving Towards a Probabilistic Future

Quantum computing technology is becoming more viable, which means programming models are going to have to be created to harness this potentially world changing technology. To many developers, understanding the possibilities of quantum computing and moving from a binary world to a world of quantum states is challenging. Tony talks to Anne Matsuura, a physicist and Director of Quantum Applications and Architecture in Intel Labs about what quantum computing can do for society and how Intel is working on building hardware and software solutions to make that future a reality. We also talk about what a quantum computer actually looks like today (hint: it’s not a tiny flat chip). Learn more: Intel Quantum Computing Homepage intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/quantum-computing.html oneAPI oneapi.io intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html Guests: Anne Matsuura – Director of Quantum Applications and Architecture in Intel Labs

Impact from AI in 5 days – How High Schoolers Beat Professional Data Scientists

AI is the new hot thing in business. Everyone wants to talk about how they are harnessing AI to make their business better. However this is not a trivial process, and maybe companies are left wondering what went wrong. Aible is a company devoted to providing business impact in less than 30 days. We talk to Arijit Sengupta, the CEO of Aible, about how Aible is able to make an impact quickly. He talks about how Aible can transform an AI solution into a business solution, using high schoolers and Aible versus data scientists to prove the point. We also discuss bias in AI, the future of AI, and how AI has the power to transform how we work and live. Learn more: Aible aible.com Aible/Intel blog intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/30-days-to-ai-value-intel-aible-solution.html#gs.krmfw7 Intel/Aible Performance Benchmark and Case Studies Report enaible.aible.com/hubfs/Intel_Aible_Benchmark.pdf Case Study Videos: How to guarantee impact from AI in 30 days aible.wistia.com/medias/2dddd6pr8i AI is a Waste of Money aible.com/ai-book Intel AI Analytics Toolkit intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/ai-analytics-toolkit.html Intel Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/openvino-toolkit/overview.html oneAPI oneapi.io intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html Guests: Arijit Sengupta – Aible CEO