Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer

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Powerful AI Can Now Be Trained on a Single Computer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/powerful-ai-can-now-be-trained-on-a-single-computer

Now a team from the University of Southern California and Intel Labs have created a way to train deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms on hardware commonly available in academic labs. In a paper presented at the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) this week, they describe how they were able to use a single high-end workstation to train AI with state-of-the-art performance on the first-person shooter videogame Doom. They also tackle a suite of 30 diverse 3D challenges created by DeepMind using a fraction of the normal computing power.