The best part about the term “Artificial Intelligence” is that nobody can really tell you what it exactly means. The main reason for this stems from the term “intelligence”, with definitions ranging from the ability to practice logical reasoning to the ability to perform cognitive tasks or dream up symphonies. When it comes to human intelligence, properties such as self-awareness, complex cognitive feats, and the ability to plan and motivate oneself are generally considered to be defining features. But frankly, what what is and isn’t “intelligence” is open to debate.
What isn’t open to debate is that AI is a marketing goldmine. The vagueness has allowed for marketing departments around the world to go all AI-happy, declaring that their product is AI-enabled and insisting that their speech assistant responds ‘intelligently’ to one’s queries. One might begin to believe that we’re on the cusp of a fantastic feature inhabited by androids and strong AIs attending to our every whim.
In this article we’ll be looking at the reality behind these claims and ponder humanity’s progress towards becoming a Type I civilization. But this is Hackaday, so we’re also going to dig into the guts of some AI chips, including the Kendryte K210 and see how the hardware of today fits into our Glorious Future.
Introducing the K210
The Kendryte K210 System-on-Chip is the AI-on-the-edge chip du jour and combines a dual-core, 64-bit RISC-V processor, along with the usual slew of peripherals. As for the target market of this chip, Kendryte summarizes it as:
Kendryte in Chinese means researching intelligence ..
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