Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
That's what an audience of 500 leading deep learning researchers were asking themselves Tuesday night when we announced we're giving away TITAN RTX GPUs to 10 lucky attendees.
The randomly chosen developers will be among the world's first to get their hands on the first TITAN GPUs built with NVIDIA's Turing architecture. Nicknamed T-Rex, TITAN RTX is the most powerful GPU for the PC ever, delivering faster training and inferencing speeds, plus twice the memory of previous-generation TITAN GPUs. They provide tremendous performance for AI research and data science.
Held in Montreal at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (known as NeurIPS), the gathering also featured an original AI-composed tune - inspired by Queen and performed live by a tribute band.
Celebrating AI Pioneers at NeurIPS The reception took place at the former Dalhousie Train Station in the heart of Old Montreal, now home to contemporary circus company Cirque loize. Attendees picked up plates of qu b cois specialties like poutine and smoked meat, taking in the green-and-black lit room.
Researchers mingled with some of AI's leading lights, including NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally, Google AI head Jeff Dean, Montreal-based deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio and Google Brain's Ian Goodfellow, the inventor of GANs.
A star-studded event (L to R): MILA's Yoshua Bengio, Google Brain's Ian Goodfellow and NVIDIA's Bill Dally at the reception. The evening kicked off with Bryan Catanzaro, NVIDIA's vice president of applied deep learning research, presenting Pioneer Awards to seven members of our NVIDIA AI Labs program.
The NVAIL program supports AI innovation at leading universities and research institutes worldwide - many of which are presenting at NeurIPS this week.
It's a growing community, Catanzaro said. We're happy to celebrate all of that with you today.
UC Berkeley's Kurtland Chua and Roberto Calandra accept a Pioneer Award presented by NVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro. Spanning research areas from reinforcement learning to adversarial example detection, the award recipients hailed from UC Berkeley, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, NYU, the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms and the Swiss AI lab IDSIA.
It feels really great, said award recipient Kurtland Chua, a student researcher at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research lab advised by Assistant Professor Sergey Levine. As an undergrad, I wouldn't expect ever getting here.
We're honored that NVIDIA supports our research, added his collaborator Roberto Calandra.
Then came a titanic surprise.
TITAN Meets Turing Have you guys heard we launched a new GPU yesterday? Catanzaro teased. It's gold and it's heavy and it's awesome. We're going to give away a bunch of these tonight.
Anticipation built as attendees checked their wristbands under black lights to see if they had a golden ticket: a glowing letter T. The 10 winners will be sent our just-announced TITAN RTX GPUs.
Ten lucky reception attendees won a TITAN RTX GPU, the first TITAN with our Turing architecture. T-Rex transforms a PC into a supercomputer, offering 130 teraflops of deep learning performance and 11 GigaRays of ray-tracing performance.
It's designed for a broad range of demanding applications - from computationally intensive AI and data science workloads to real-time ray tracing, VR and high performance computing.
Caltech Ph.D. student Guanya Shi was excited to use the new GPU for his robotics and machine learning research. Xavier Bouthillier, Ph.D. student at the Universit de Montr al, said he looks forward to using T-Rex for his optimization work using deep neural networks.
Don't Stop Me Now: AI-Composed Music Caps Off Evening To top it all off, a Canadian rock group called Simply Queen played an original song composed by AI in the style of Queen.
Those who listened closely could catch lines like Let the GeForce pull you in, which were written by the band's lead singer and drummer.
There are some little touches in there, definitely, said Rick Rock, the band's frontman, who took to the stage in a Freddie Mercury-style yellow leather jacket. Ultimately, it's a collaboration with the AI.
GPUs Will Rock You: The audience went wild for the rock concert, featuring an original AI-composed song inspired by Queen. The neural networks behind the tune were developed by Luxembourg-based startup AIVA and trained on NVIDIA GPUs. After initial training on a database of hundreds of rock songs, the models had a second round of training on 50 Queen tracks to learn the musical style of the legendary band.
Rock music has more repetition in its rhythm than classical music, presenting a challenge for training the algorithm to capture Queen's unique sound without overfitting to any particular song, said Pierre Barreau, AIVA's CEO. We had to make sure that it's making something original while also respecting the style.
Me and my sister grew up watching my dad's old videos of Queen concerts, so it was great - I really enjoyed it, said Sarah Poole, data scientist at Verily Life Sciences. You could definitely tell it was Queen's style.
As the night continued, the band serenaded the audience with Queen hits, including Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites the Dust and, of course, We Will Rock You.
The crowd gathered by the stage, singing along, cheering and jumping up and down to the music.
It was like the real Queen, said Ahmed Touati, Ph.D. student at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms.
The band concluded their set with a rousing rendition of We Are the Champions - a fitting tribute for this gathering of deep learning champions.
Most recent headlines
04/08/2024
Dalet, a leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, is excited to announce Santiago Solanas as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO)....
03/06/2024
Dalet, a leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, a...
31/05/2024
A U.S. Marine fires an FIM-92 Stinger missile during a training exercise in Yuma...
31/05/2024
NEW YORK The global body that sets technical standards for digital advertising h...
31/05/2024
In a new analysis of what services might make up a good bundle and what services might benefit the most from bundling, Antenna has released new data that highli...
31/05/2024
Global SVOD revenues will increase by $116.6 billion by 2031, a growth rate of 13.3% per year over the next eight years, according to a new report from MIDiA Re...
31/05/2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. The FCC Media Bureau has announced that effective August 1, 2024 the Commission's TVStudy software will incorporate the most recent U.S. Ce...
31/05/2024
NBCUniversal has announced that its FAST channel TNBC will be rebranding to NBC Comedy Vault on June 1 and that the free streaming service will officially launc...
31/05/2024
PARIS Ateme has announced that the Indonesian public broadcaster TVRI is making the transition to 4K UHD OTT streaming using Ateme technologies....
31/05/2024
The proposal had received support from James Cameron, Andy Serkis, Paul Greengrass, Richard Curtis, and Jeremy Irons
By Matthew Corrigan
Published: May 31, 2...
31/05/2024
According to multiple reports, the new bid from Skydance offers a better deal to Paramounts Class B shareholders, who were said to be unhappy with the companys ...
31/05/2024
The awards recognise women and companies who are stand-out performers, innovators and leaders in the broadcast media technology industry
By Matthew Corrigan
...
31/05/2024
NEW YORK The global body that sets technical standards for digital advertising has expanded the reach of its measurement software development kit to include Sam...
31/05/2024
The rise of digital platforms is fundamentally changing the broadcast newsroom and its investment in technology according to Jon Roberts, director of technology...
31/05/2024
In a new analysis of what services might make up a good bundle and what services might benefit the most from bundling, Antenna has released new data that highli...
31/05/2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. Fifty state broadcasters associations, including the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, have sent a letter to Congressio...
31/05/2024
EVS has announced the appointment of Richard Katz as senior vice president of operations for the North and Latin American (NALA) region. This appointment is par...
31/05/2024
CommScope has announced that it was selected by Casa Systems, Inc. as the highest to acquire Casa's cable business assets and that the two companies have en...
31/05/2024
Robert De Niro won't be receiving the Service to America Leadership Award from the NAB Leadership Foundation after all....
31/05/2024
Viant Technology said it formed an integration with Google Cloud's BigQuery data clean rooms...
31/05/2024
The CW said it will broadcast the 2024 Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl presented by Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop Last year, The CW aired the game when it was called Bar...
31/05/2024
Allen Media Group said it made a deal with Amazon's Fire TV Channel that will make content from several of Allen's outlet available via Fire TV and Echo...
31/05/2024
Robert De Niro, announced as the winner of the NAB's Leadership Foundation's Service to America Leadership Award on May 28, will not get the award. The ...
31/05/2024
Comcast Technology Solutions was selected by AccuWeather to create, manage and distribute linear and over-the-top video channels....
31/05/2024
Connected TV is becoming a bigger deal for consumers and advertisers, according to a new report from TVision....
31/05/2024
31 May 2024
VEON discloses April YTD trading update at its AGM Amsterdam, 31 May 2024 07:00 CEST -
VEON April YTD 2024 Highlights
Total revenue of USD 1,278 ...
31/05/2024
31 May 2024
VEON Announces Its New Board, Names Founder Augie Fabela as Chairman Amsterdam, 31 May 2024, 16.00 CET: VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON, Euronext Amsterdam...
31/05/2024
May 31st, 2024
TRIBECA FESTIVAL AND OPEN AI ANNOUNCE SORA SHORTS'
Five Commissioned Short Films Created Using Sora Debut at 2024 Tribeca Festival
New ...
31/05/2024
In-Venue Technology Wrap-Up: How 4K, IP, and More are Changing the Game Pres Gam...
31/05/2024
UEFA Champions League Final 2024: The host broadcast facts and figures for Real ...
31/05/2024
UEFA Europa Conference League Final 2024: Bringing the broadcast to global TV sc...
31/05/2024
Willow Offers Free 2024 ICC T20 Cricket World Cup Preview via DirecTV, Verizon, ...
31/05/2024
Women's College World Series: ESPN Brings Live Drone, Two-Point Cabled, and ...
31/05/2024
SVG College Summit Brings Video-Production Industry Together in Atlanta in the M...
31/05/2024
UEFA Champions League Final 2024: CBS Sports' UCL Today Studio Show Is Pitch...
31/05/2024
Back to All News
Master of the House' Unveils a Scandalous Tale of Power and Greed on July 18
Entertainment
31 May 2024
GlobalThailand
Link copied to ...
31/05/2024
Back to All News
JEEtu Bhaiya is Back: Kota Factory' Season 3 Arrives on Netflix June 20
Entertainment
31 May 2024
GlobalIndia
Link copied to clipboar...
31/05/2024
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
With around 9,000 employees, Ground Transportation Systems is a global leader in Rail Signaling and Train Control Systems, Telec...
31/05/2024
RT 2FM is the home of music this summer, entertaining listeners across the day and night, with the best music, chat and interviews providing the soundtrack to ...
31/05/2024
After the 2008 financial crisis and increased risk-management regulations that f...
31/05/2024
RT Supporting the Arts: What's On this June
Watch our promo: RT Supporting the Arts | What's on YouTube
This June, RT is delighted to support Lim...
30/05/2024
When to Upgrade Software or Firmware This post is from our blog and news archive. The information may be out of date. Please contact us for further information ...
30/05/2024
The City of San Jose Chooses Utah Scientific Again! This post is from our blog and news archive. The information may be out of date. Please contact us for furth...
30/05/2024
Navigating Strategy, Ethics, and Innovation in the evolving European media lands...
30/05/2024
By Bailey Pennick
One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festi...
30/05/2024
Tickets are now available for the first-of-its-kind event in the United States f...
30/05/2024
Mental health and well-being are fundamental components of a child's healthy...
30/05/2024
After 64 days, the winner of Alone Australia has been revealed
29 May, 2024
Media releases
*Contains Spoilers*
After 64 days alone in the extreme and wild...
30/05/2024
Alone Australia finale delivers strongly as SBS confirms it will join VOZ stream...
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
