Giroro :
Oh, Nvidia -Gave- away the Titan V. Past tense.
Meaning there is nothing for me to do here except wonder what a bunch of minimum wage call center employees, most of whom can no longer afford rent, are going to do with an AI focused graphics card.
Dude, you have no clue.
CVPR is the most prestigious academic conference on machine vision and image processing. Leading academics and industry players travel from around the world to attend. It's held in a different city, each year.
http://cvpr2018.thecvf.com
And these weren't given out at random, but as an award:
Huang called up 12 teams of researchers and presented each with an NVIDIA Pioneer Award.
The awards went to those who’ve used NVIDIA’s AI platform to support great work featured in papers accepted by CVPR and other leading academic conferences.
What I don't understand is why - when something doesn't seem to add up - isn't your first instinct to click the link and read more? Because
maybe what's messed up isn't reality, but just the understanding you inferred from a couple sentences in a short article?
With the information so readily available, this feels a lot like willful ignorance. Either way, it's not good.