In fact, Google is actually a pioneer in terms of artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence chips. I don't know if everyone still remembers TPU, a Google-built processor that is tailor-made for machine learning.
▲ Google's second-generation TPU
So, what does Google think of AI chips?
At the AI technology sharing conference held in the Chinese office, Google’s chief scientist Greg Corrado gave his opinion on the chip issue. He believes that Google has now begun to produce custom chips that can accelerate AI, but such chips are not dedicated. AI chip.
At the same time, he said that so far he has not seen any successes that are completely different from traditional computing chips. He believes that existing chips should be optimized specifically for AI, making the chips faster and lower power consumption when completing AI tasks. The benefits are even higher.
Greg Corrado uses AlphaGo as an example. He thinks that AlphaGo's computing chip is Google's optimized chip for AI.