Meta, Facebook’s parent firm, claims that its new artificial intelligence (AI) ‘Research SuperCluster’ (RSC) would ‘pave the way’ for Metaverse’s development. According to a January 24 blog post announcing the hardware, Facebook estimates RSC is already one of the world’s fastest supercomputers and will take the top rank when it is fully operational in mid-2022. The Company wrote: “Developing the next generation of advanced AI will require powerful new computers capable of quintillions of operations per second. Ultimately, the work done with RSC will pave the way toward building technologies for the next major computing platform — the metaverse, where AI-driven applications and products will play an important role.” RSC Can Learn From Trillions of Examples: Mark Zuckerberg To build ‘advanced AI’ for computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition, the machine will be able to work across hundreds of different languages. The metaverse experiences they’re creating demand massive compute power (quintillions of operations per second!), and RSC will enable new AI models that can learn from trillions of examples and understand hundreds of languages, among other things. Mark added to his 24th Jan Facebook post: “We hope RSC will help us build entirely new AI systems that can, for example, power real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each speaking a different language, so they can seamlessly collab...
