graphics processing unit

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a hardware chip designed to optimise graphics operations such as rendering images in gaming. GPUs apply parallel processing to multiple streams of data simultaneously and have proved useful in data-procesisng applications beyond graphics, notably in neural networks and other AI algorihms.

Used in Chap. 12: page 166

Also known as GPU