SPECIAL FEATURE
How Artificial Intelligence Is Impacting Embedded Military Computing By Dan Mor, Director, Video & GPGPU Product Line Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way from merely carrying out automated tasks based on a data set. It is truly empowering embedded systems globally, providing ‘rational’ computer-based knowledge using data input. The intuitive processing capabilities of AI have served as the catalyst to propel modern systems into this new realm of high intensity computing using real time data. AI itself has matured and expanded into a new
discipline called machine learning, where systems can learn from data inputs without being explicitly programmed. And taking it one step further is where we are today: deep learning...classified as a subset of machine learning. (Figure 1) AI Evolves into Deeper Learning Modeled after the brain’s neural networks, deep learning makes connections between multiple data networks and optimizes those connections to enable a system to make realistic assumptions
according to the data. Inferences across data paths can be generated, leading to systems taking actions not previously prescribed, but rather that have been acquired through training and application of knowledge. System intelligence increases, with more accurate, logic-based decisions made more quickly over time. Leading the charge of this increased data input, processing and clarity is GPGPU (general purpose graphics processing unit) technology, which is in-
Figure 1: Artificial Intelligence is evolving into deep learning with more inferences that enable systems with more credible, decision-based capabilities. 18
COTS Journal | September 2021
