Gary Brotman - Qualcomm - A Leader in Mobile
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As opposed to many other leaders in AI, the team at Qualcomm is a leader in edge computing that's conducted research for the past decade focused on optimizing, improving, and embracing machine learning and general AI algorithms on mobile processors without the need for a connection to the cloud. So, what's the advantage of on-device computing versus AI cloud players? Aside from improvements in energy consumption, there are actually three that are driving product development: performance, privacy, and reliability.
Since 2008, Qualcomm has been looking into neural networks and deep learning, but the past three years have brought an influx of compute capability and an abundance of algorithmic data, which lead to Qualcomm's release of one of the first mobile AI platforms and the Snapdragon 820 processor. Since then, Qualcomm has made numerous new developments and optimizations. Tune in to hear the details and to learn what's on the horizon.
To reach out for collaborations or find out about the latest developments, visit developer.qualcomm.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, around the corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies poised to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these technologies are now |
| 0:15.5 | here and starting to be used or just around the corner. From Bitcoin to |
| 0:20.0 | artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | This is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I guess today has been a tough guy to get but we well worth listening to |
| 0:33.6 | Gary Brottman director of product management and the head of AI at Qualcomm. |
| 0:38.6 | Hi thanks for having me on very good so tell me about your position as director what what kind of AI projects is Qualcomm working on I didn't know you know I don't know I don't know if they talk about it very much but what's what's Qualcomm doing in the AI world? |
| 0:52.6 | So Qualcomm, as you may know, |
| 0:56.0 | has been a leader in on device |
| 0:58.1 | or a leader in mobile and edge-based compute. |
| 1:01.5 | I mean, we've been powering smartphones with our |
| 1:03.9 | Snapchat mobile processors for a better part of the last decade and we're really |
| 1:09.0 | taking the or we have been over the past I'd say the past three years commercially, but really the past ten years from a research standpoint, |
| 1:17.0 | seeking out ways that we can improve and embrace machine learning, |
| 1:23.0 | deep learning, just general AI algorithms |
| 1:26.0 | on our processors across the board. |
| 1:29.0 | Our focus is very much on device. |
| 1:32.0 | We are not a cloud player like many of the of |
| 1:37.5 | leaders of industry and AI are really focused today. What we're doing is we're taking the heritage that we have in |
| 1:45.1 | compute and mobile and we're optimizing that to be able to execute AI algorithms and |
| 1:51.2 | use cases on device without the need for a connection to the cloud. |
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