Nvidia Unveils Jetson TX1 Learning Supercomputer Bringing the World On Step Closer to Drones & Robot with AI

Once upon a time, an animated cartoon called "The Jetsons" said that artificial intelligence is a thing in the future. That future is here now and NVIDIA is set on making these AI robots, well... more intelligent.

According to Tech Times, the company is working on ways to make drones and artificial intelligence systems smarter, and their hardware masters are looking for ways to ad machine learning to their smart devices, with Nvidia making things easier with the help of its latest supercomputer, the Jetson TX1.

This supercomputer is said to lower the time machines rely on for their dynamic input and computations. Devices installed with this can have facial recognition systems, autonomous drones and other things that require machine learning. The new hardware is said to replace the Nvidia TK1 SDK, which was launched in 2014.

Deepu Tallia, vice president and general manager of the Tegra business at the company said that the Jetson TX1 will enable a new generation of autonomous devices, adding that "They will navigate on their own, recognize objects and faces and become increasingly intelligent through machine learning. It will enable developers to create industry-changing products."

Geek.com described the Jetson TX1 as a board that "packs a ton of computing power into a very small package", noting that the board is actually the size of a credit card, but can bust out 1 teraflop of point operations every second. However, Nvidia is not claiming too much as to tell the world it can be a direct competitor to the Core i7.

However, it is better suited for those who can use 256-core Maxwell GPUs, as it is equipped to handle deep machine learning. In the art of image classification, for instance, the Jetson TX1 performs better than the Core i7 in terms of performance: the Jetson TX1 can power through 350 images per second, as opposed to i7's 250.

Nvidia also hopes that soon, their product can power millions of smart devices, as company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang believes that machine learning will be the best times in computing, and he's not the only one with this foretelling.

However, Microsoft and Google are also working on their own versions of supercomputers and cloud platorms that can deliver machine learning services to companies that will be a bit further in the future.

What do you think of having more intelligent artificial intelligence hardware in the future? Is this a step toward robots taking over the earth, or is that too sci-fi for you?