Anshumali Shrivastava is the founder and CEO of ThirdAI Corp., a company dedicated to democratizing AI to commodity hardware through software innovations. He is also an associate professor in the computer-science department at Rice University. His broad research interests include probabilistic algorithms for resource-frugal deep learning. In 2018, Science news named him one of the Top-10 scientists under 40 to watch. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, a machine-learning research award from Amazon, and a Data Science Research Award from Adobe. He has won numerous paper awards, including Best Paper Award at NIPS 2014 and Most Reproducible Paper Award at SIGMOD 2019.
The current AI industry assumes that CPUs are inferior to GPUs and other specialized processors (such as TPUs) for heavyweight AI computations. The popular algorithms...
