AIseek Intia - an... AI processor! :P

[Przemek]

After the release of Ageia PhysX cards, I knew a specialized AI chip will be next. And... there will be one!
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060905-7665.html

I'm waiting for a chip that performs hardware accelerated website rendering :O

 

[-Psy-]

And that leaves the CPU to do...what exactly?

 

[bliink]

I'd rather a dual core CPU instead of a physics or AI card. It would be stupid to try and run number crunching out of an extension card when you can do it with a dedicated CPU component

 

[giant384]

And that leaves the CPU to do...what exactly?

QFT

 

[The Brick]

I told you this would be the next thing.

A few demos are found here. http://www.aiseek.com/Demos.html

The cpu would handle all the data tafic, which can be a pretty big thing if you have all these cards communicating in your pc.

 

[bliink]

A few demos are found here. http://www.aiseek.com/Demos.html

They don't really prove or demonstrate anything unless I can see the .exe's that created the .avi's

 

[The Brick]

 

[-Psy-]

I'm impressed by that first movie.

But unpredictable AI could be really frustrating for both players and developers.

 

[Stigmata]

I suppose it's reasonable to assume that you can control exactly how unpredictable the AI is with its problem-solving. Not all NPCs require random reactions, so I'm sure it's either a separate code module, or something handled by boolean/floating-point values.

 

[giant384]

it wont let me view them even though i right click and download it

 

[NJspeed]

It just gets better and better!

I can't wait til we all got implanted VR ports.

 

[63]

What's next, a sound card!?

 

[giant384]

What's next, a sound card!?

considering hdmi will already do that on one card

 

[Asus]

Now we just need a separate card to proccess keyboard and mouse commands.

Oh and a $300 Gamer NIC card.

 

[theotherguy]

great, now we have the GPU(graphics processing), PPU(physics processing), RPU(raytrace processing), AIPU(AI processing) and CPU(central processing)

 

[giant384]

Now we just need a separate card to proccess keyboard and mouse commands.

Oh and a $300 Gamer NIC card.

haha ive seen that before its such a waste of money

 

[Death.Trap]

great, now we have the GPU(graphics processing), PPU(physics processing), RPU(raytrace processing), AIPU(AI processing) and CPU(central processing)

Now we just need motherboards with enough slots!

 

[giant384]

Now we just need motherboards with enough slots!

going to be all just slots lol no cpu sockets no ram sockets just slots. wooo what a tall case that will be!!! mabye WE CAN SLI THE MOTHERBOARDS TO GET 2x THE POWER. THEN THERE WILL BE CASES MEANT FOR SLI MOBOs. crap now someone will patton my idea.

 

[theotherguy]

going to be all just slots lol no cpu sockets no ram sockets just slots. wooo what a tall case that will be!!! mabye WE CAN SLI THE MOTHERBOARDS TO GET 2x THE POWER. THEN THERE WILL BE CASES MEANT FOR SLI MOBOs. crap now someone will patton my idea.

sounds like a good idea

 

[giant384]

sounds like a good idea

WOOO GOOD OL PATTON

 

[The Brick]

great, now we have the GPU(graphics processing), PPU(physics processing), RPU(raytrace processing), AIPU(AI processing) and CPU(central processing)

APU (audio processing), NPU (network processing).

 

[-Psy-]

Pointless add-ons ftw! D:

 

[PvtRyan]

WPU, Waste Processing Unit!

 

[TheDan]

I'm going to create a PPU (Pi Processing Unit), which is dedicated to calculating pi to as many digits as it can.

 

[giant384]

I'm going to create a PPU (Pi Processing Unit), which is dedicated to calculating pi to as many digits as it can.

lol so whats the point of this unit???

 

[Dekstar]

lol so whats the point of this unit???

delicious pi!

 

[Jack_Karverboy]

And why don't they just make better AI in games to begin with? Whats the point of an extra chip?

 

[Cole]

And why don't they just make better AI in games to begin with? Whats the point of an extra chip?

To heavily accelerate and provide a programming API for AI.

 

[Asuka]

I like the idea of new hardware like this. But unless everyone starts useing it its pointless.

 

[-Psy-]

I'm sure PPU's are going to be built into GPU's so I don't see why CPU's can't allow a dedicated unit like so.

 

[hungryduck]

ugh....all this shit does is make it more expensive to build a computer.....these days you have to buy: CPU GPU PHYSPU AIPU and then that stupid "Killer NIC Card" that supposedly takes lag away.
blah.

 

[Barney Fife]

ugh....all this shit does is make it more expensive to build a computer.....these days you have to buy: CPU GPU PHYSPU AIPU and then that stupid "Killer NIC Card" that supposedly takes lag away.
blah.

QFT. Fikin lol may I add.

 

[TheDan]

They should integrate more than one Processing Unit onto a single card. Say, have two cards. One with graphics/physics, other with AI/Uber lag removal. Or something like that.