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[Akida27]

@Brainchip just ticked over 6,000 followers on Twitter. 10k by years end I reckon

 

[AARONASX]

Which now brings me to think will there be an age limit. I can just imagine some cashed up 12 yr old cruising to the local Macca's to pick up some burgers in his fully autonomous akida tricked out vehicle.

Maybe that's a possibility, if safety is better than a human ever can be with the AI, it should recognise the main driver over a 12 year old hijacking mum and dad's car. Also maybe parents can loan the car to their children to drive them to school or a friends etc, setup a geofence where the kids can and cannot go, if the AI becomes smart and we all become passenger then age is pointless.

 

[Fact Finder]

Maybe that's a possibility, if safety is better than a human ever can be with the AI, it should recognise the main driver over a 12 year old hijacking mum and dad's car. Also maybe parents can loan the car to their children to drive them to school or a friends etc, setup a geofence where the kids can and cannot go, if the AI becomes smart and we all become passenger then age is pointless.

The Level 5 autonomous vehicle is no longer an automobile in the traditional sense of that word it will be a personal transportation device.

It will be a taxi and nothing more. As the owner/parent it will be personalised to the owner by the owner and only those authorised will be transported by it.

Old thinking about obtaining a drivers licence being a right of passage, a coming of age a gaining of freedom will disappear from our culture.

This however despite statements from some in the industry is at least thirty years away perhaps longer even in developed countries.
My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Worker122]

During the terrible bushfires that savaged Australia there was much calling out of the super wealthy of Australian business for allegedly failing to step up and donate to the recovery effort.

Much has been written over the years about the absence of a culture of philanthropy in Australia amongst our rich.

The following article from 2021 sets out one wealthy individuals perspective on the absence of this culture:

https://www.afr.com/wealth/people/t...e-wealthy-did-the-right-thing-20210513-p57rh6

Don’t be put off by the fact that it is an AFR article as the author is independent of the organisation.

In reading this article you will note that Peter van der Made’s paper wealth falls well short of the group being targeted by the author in fact about 100 million dollars short.

Peter van der Made’s donation pushes very close to 2% of his now paper wealth and in doing so outshines the efforts of many of those referenced in the article.

The fact that a tin pot organisation run by a windsurfer can publish the sort of rubbish it does speaks to the deep seated it’s all about me culture that masquerades as sophisticated financial expertise in this country.

The actions of Peter van der Made and his family in donating to charity should have been lauded by the financial industry but all we have heard is crickets beyond this scurrilous piece of gutter journalism.

The silence of all the other rags and authors at Motley Fool, ***************** and The Financial Review is as bad as it evidences they have no interest in promoting a higher standard amongst the wealthy in Australia.

Their complete silence tells me everything I need to know about their ethical standards and reveals an existential truth about the level of moral corruption in the financial services industry in Australia.

My opinion only.
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Spot on FF, Hoping someone somewhere in amongst that lot read your sentiments and takes the lead in a more proactive approach to helping others. The shining light waaay ahead of them all is PVDM.

 

[Mea culpa]

During the terrible bushfires that savaged Australia there was much calling out of the super wealthy of Australian business for allegedly failing to step up and donate to the recovery effort.

Much has been written over the years about the absence of a culture of philanthropy in Australia amongst our rich.

The following article from 2021 sets out one wealthy individuals perspective on the absence of this culture:

https://www.afr.com/wealth/people/t...e-wealthy-did-the-right-thing-20210513-p57rh6

Don’t be put off by the fact that it is an AFR article as the author is independent of the organisation.

In reading this article you will note that Peter van der Made’s paper wealth falls well short of the group being targeted by the author in fact about 100 million dollars short.

Peter van der Made’s donation pushes very close to 2% of his now paper wealth and in doing so outshines the efforts of many of those referenced in the article.

The fact that a tin pot organisation run by a windsurfer can publish the sort of rubbish it does speaks to the deep seated it’s all about me culture that masquerades as sophisticated financial expertise in this country.

The actions of Peter van der Made and his family in donating to charity should have been lauded by the financial industry but all we have heard is crickets beyond this scurrilous piece of gutter journalism.

The silence of all the other rags and authors at Motley Fool, ***************** and The Financial Review is as bad as it evidences they have no interest in promoting a higher standard amongst the wealthy in Australia.

Their complete silence tells me everything I need to know about their ethical standards and reveals an existential truth about the level of moral corruption in the financial services industry in Australia.

My opinion only.
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Nailed it, as we've come to, not only expect but also to take on board and learn from.
Cheers FF.

 

[Slymeat]

Just had a thought when autonomous driving is at level 5 will you still need a licence to drive a vehicle?

Edit... Lol serious question.
Edit number 2... Why is this a haha reaction post?

I assume you don’t need to have a license to ride in the back seat of a taxi or bus, regardless of there being a human driver or not.

If sitting behind the steering wheel, I assume you may need a license as you can take-over control at any time.

But then Elon has a plan to produce a cheap car that does not have a steering wheel. So maybe then you can sit in the front seat without a license.

Maybe there will be different categories of licenses, as exist today with manual and automatic endorsed licenses.

Possibly a legal can-o-worms proving who was at fault too! But fully autonomous does mean zero human interaction, so,the fault should return to the car manufacturer/engineers/designers. Again, back to the taxi analogy. If a taxi is involved in an accident, the passenger is not at fault. And in a fully autonomous vehicle, you truly are just a passenger!

 

[Boab]

The Level 5 autonomous vehicle is no longer an automobile in the traditional sense of that word it will be a personal transportation device.

It will be a taxi and nothing more. As the owner/parent it will be personalised to the owner by the owner and only those authorised will be transported by it.

Old thinking about obtaining a drivers licence being a right of passage, a coming of age a gaining of freedom will disappear from our culture.

This however despite statements from some in the industry is at least thirty years away perhaps longer even in developed countries.
My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

I think it's going to be some time before Level 5 can work in a situation like this??

 

[Fact Finder]

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11100923B2/en

Sonos Announces Acquisition of Snips

Addition of talent and technology that will elevate the voice experience on Sonos Sonos, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONO) today announced the acquisition of Snips SAS (“Snips”), an AI voice platform for connected devices that provides private-by-design voice technology. The acquisition will bring a talented...

investors.sonos.com

On-device voice control on Sonos speakers

Read more about the unique combination of software and hardware that powers the Sonos ecosystem. Welcome to our technology blog.

tech-blog.sonos.com

"The Sonos voice engine processes your voice and understands your requests entirely on the speaker. No audio or transcript is sent to the cloud, stored, listened to, read or labeled by anyone, so all the conversations in a user’s home remain in the home."

I'm not tech savvy enough to know if this sort of feature is capable without brainchip but it caught my interest nonetheless.

Not AKIDA yet. They use ARM for their hardware so AKIDA IP on ARM hardware would significantly upgrade their offerings and dramatically reduce power consumption.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Fact Finder]

I think it's going to be some time before Level 5 can work in a situation like this??

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Particularly on those motor bikes and scooters.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Slymeat]

Marketing is a strange world:


“Upon joining the executive team at BrainChip, a key priority was to reframe and rebrand the company”, said Jerome Nadel, CMO at BrainChip. “Heavenly guided us through the process of codifying our existential truth to simplify the articulation of what we do, and why it’s important. The complexity of neuromorphic computing was simplified to learning to do less, and essentiality. This was beautifully expressed in narrative and visuals. We’ve leveraged this positioning across all aspects of our business”.

BrainChip is the antidote to more. To more devices. More data. More demands on the data center. The technology brings common sense to the processing of sensor data, freeing machines to do more with less,” explained Sunderland. “From there, machines are able to infer the big picture from the basics. We branded this ‘Essential AI’. Essential is optimizing compute. Maximizing performance. Minimizing power. In the real world. And in real time.”

For those who find it difficult to get the message, maybe
“Ubiquitois Essential AI Everywhere”.

Yes I am aware of the redundant repetition, it was intentional. As was that. And that!

Followed up with “You may not know you want it, but we know you need it. It’s in its name—it’s essential!”.

Or perhaps a seemingly malapropism that makes more sense than using a commonly known saying — “Take the leap onto the edge”

”To the edge and beyond.”

Infinity seems a bit of overkill.

 

[DollazAndSense]

Not AKIDA yet. They use ARM for their hardware so AKIDA IP on ARM hardware would significantly upgrade their offerings and dramatically reduce power consumption.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Thanks for clarifying, FF.

 

[GrandRhino]

Wonderful. Thank you.

I love it. Thank you. It was an answer to my earlier post from a week or so ago, perhaps....or if not, then just a coincidence. Regardless...well done.
Could I request the addition of an entry?........place around Dec/Jan 2022 time, when Mercedes came out with the stunning EQXX news which then catapulted stock price from 60 cents area to 2.30 +/- .

dippY previous;y wrote,....." Your "milestone" comment got me to thinking about timelines. Timelines are a way to visually see the progress of something, right? Well, in a similar way that the tip of the iceberg graphic visually presents companies with a Brainchip connection on one simple image, a Brainchip timeline might...

Yes, I think it was you dippy! I remember that comment you made now, and I think there were a few similar leading up to it that got me thinking about the idea.

Thanks for the Merc addition, good one! I've added it.

 

[Slymeat]

Yes I have let them know and Tony Dawe has been tasked however this fly by night organisation do not like the idea that someone might want to speak face to face so adopt a very stealth identity off line.

ANY information the true techies here can uncover and send to Tony Dawe would be appreciated I am sure.


FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

I gave them some negative feedback also. In it I said they should read ASX announcements before posting lies.

It truly astounds me (actually it disgusts me) how such purely philanthropic actions can get such bad press!

 

[VictorG]

I learn something new everyday...

So apparently its possible to berth my yacht "The Akida Seas" in Portofino.

 

[Reuben]

Linkedin post put up by The Chief Software Officer at Mercedes Benz - promoting "Hey Mercedes" - and by the looks of it the "Hey Mercedes" function in the EQXX will leap frog the features in the current "Hey Mercedes" function multiple time over plus add to that the power efficiency as well and Smarter

link to the linkedinpost - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/magnus-östberg_dataquality-mercedesbenz-activity-6942423611311861760-d8JG?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web

 

[Earlyrelease]

I learn something new everyday...

So apparently its possible to berth my yacht "The Akida Seas" in Portofino.


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See you parked next to FF’s tender (being the bigger boat)

 

[Boab]

I think it's going to be some time before Level 5 can work in a situation like this??

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Rush hour traffic Ho Chi Minh City. They are all so polite and it seems to work.

 

[Diogenese]

Are we still thinking Plumerai is a goer?

Redirecting...

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Hi tls,

When Edge Impulse realized they needed Akida:

https://blog.plumerai.com/2021/10/cortex-m-inference-software/

Monday, October 4, 2021

At Plumerai we enable our customers to perform increasingly complex AI tasks on tiny embedded hardware. We’re proud to announce that our inference software for Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers is the fastest and most memory-efficient in the world, for both Binarized Neural Networks and for 8-bit deep learning models. Our inference software is an essential component of our solution, since it directs resource management akin to an operating system. It has 40% lower latency and requires 49% less RAM than TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers with Arm’s CMSIS-NN kernels while retaining the same accuracy. It also outperforms any other deep learning inference software for Arm Cortex-M:

	Inference time	RAM usage
TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers 2.5 (with CMSIS-NN)	129 ms	155 KiB
Edge Impulse’s EON	120 ms	153 KiB
MIT’s TinyEngine 1	124 ms	98 KiB
STMicroelectronics’ X-CUBE-AI	103 ms	109 KiB
Plumerai’s inference software	77 ms	80 KiB

Model: MobileNetV2 2 3 (alpha=0.30, resolution=80x80, classes=1000)
Board: STM32F746G-Discovery at 216 MHz with 320 KiB RAM and 1 MiB flash


Our inference software builds upon TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers, such that it supports all of the same operations and more. But since resources are scarce on a microcontroller, we do not rely on TensorFlow or Arm’s kernels for the most performance-critical layers. Instead, for those layer types we developed custom kernel code, optimized for lowest latency and memory usage. This includes optimized code for regular convolutions, depthwise convolutions, fully-connected layers, various pooling layers and more. To become faster than the already heavily optimized Arm Cortex-M specific CMSIS-NN kernels, we had to go deep inside the inner-loops and also rethink the higher-level algorithms. This includes optimizations such as hand-written assembly blocks, improved register usage, pre-processing of weights and input activations and template-based loop-unrolling.

Although these generic per-layer-type optimizations resulted in great speed-ups, we went further and squeezed out every last bit of performance from the Arm Cortex-M microcontroller. To do that, we perform specific optimizations for each layer in a neural network. For instance, rather than only optimizing convolutions in general, our inference software makes specific improvements based on all actual values of layer parameters such as kernel sizes, strides, padding, etc. Since we do not know upfront which neural networks our inference software might run, we make these optimizations together with the compiler. This is achieved by generating code in an automated pre-processing step using the neural network as input. We then guide the compiler to do all the necessary constant propagation, function inlining and loop unrolling to achieve the lowest possible latency.

...
And if the above results are still not fast enough for your application, we go even further. We make our AI tiny and radically more efficient by using Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) - deep learning models that use only a single bit to encode each weight and activation.

So they are using a software SNN, like MetaTF.

Somewhere they mention 55 frames per second(after all, it is software) - now who can do 1000 fps?

 

[Fact Finder]

I have just opened a new thread which is not something I have done titled 'BRAINCHIP BENEFACTOR REVEALED'.

I would ask that we keep this new thread entirely about Peter van der Made and his character.

I would suggest that if you are part of any other group on Facebook or the like where appropriate you might also do something similar.

@GrandRhino if I might also suggest that this could be on your AkidaAi site as it is clearly a significant matter relating to this company and its
core values.

And if ASX Investor is out there reading this post perhaps the next time you present on Brainchip you could make mention of this donation by Peter van der Made as the story from the windsurfer is being picked up by other websites the most recent of which was one for those with an interest in defence.

My opinion only DYOR
FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

 

[Diogenese]

I just love this line:

“Heavenly guided us through the process of codifying our existential truth”

I would spend my whole day laughing if I worked in marketing.

“OUR EXISTENTIAL TRUTH”

I wonder if the ASX allows existential truth to be published as price sensitive or is it existentially price sensitive.

FF

AKIDA BALLISTA

Sartre's daughter said that if her father had belonged to a political party, it would have been one which did not believe it was always right.