It seems Nvidia is fed up with pandemic stockouts, having just announced new efforts to harness its artificial intelligence to bring products from factories to stores and homes, just in time for the Black Friday sales. Nvidia's new ReOpt AI software combines the company's pre-existing machine learning software with pre-existing data and algorithms specific to local regions to determine the most optimized route for delivery vehicles to travel. As we head into Black Friday 2021, which already seems to be plagued by stockouts that have kept the latest and greatest devices out of our hands for months, Nvidia suggests that its new tool could be a boon for consumers and businesses alike. Manufacturers and retailers can make sure supply chains run as smoothly as possible and stocks are where they need to be, while customers can relax a bit more knowing the best deals aren't coming. . Given how close we are to this year's sales event (the first deals are already starting to appear), it might be a bit late for Nvidia to support Black Friday this year. But Nvidia's tool could be used to help shoppers snag last-minute gifts in December and take advantage of the January sales we typically see around the New Year. However, some companies have already adopted the system; Domino's Pizza uses Nvidia's AI ReOpt to deliver orders, so if you feel like your takeout has arrived a little quicker than before, you can thank the graphics card maker.
Analysis: making our future
IT staff will instantly recognize this as the latest effort by a company to address the well-known problem of roaming providers, where the goal is to be able to find the most efficient route between multiple different points. While this is fairly trivial for a system with few destinations, as the complexity of the situation increases and you add different routes and modes of transportation between locations, it becomes something a human would have a hard time solving quickly. For a PC, the problem is much less difficult, and Nvidia's experience with graphics cards will greatly benefit your efforts here. A GPU renders a scene by doing a lot of very simple calculations. The difficulty of this task and the need for very high-quality components arise from the fact that there are a large number of these calculations that need to be performed at once, especially when higher quality graphics and effects such as ray tracing are introduced. Likewise, measuring the efficiency of a route from point A to point B is not difficult, but the traveling salesman problem exists because several thousand routes have to be measured between several thousand points. If you're looking for the most useful data, you also need to do this as close to real time as possible, just like a GPU has to render an image in real time as the game progresses and reacts to game input. Player. . This property of GPUs is also why they are so highly sought after by cryptocurrency miners – mining requires you to perform many very simple steps. This is another reason why you couldn't find the RTX 3080 you're so desperately looking for. If you don't care about logistics (in all honesty, that's a pretty bland topic), you should always keep an eye on Nvidia's AI. The traveling salesman problem also has applications in DNA sequencing, and Nvidia has announced that a drug discovery startup (Entos) will use its machine learning software to find next-generation treatments that work better than what we have now. Similarly, Nvidia explained that its AI could also help scientists better track the effects of climate change and create more accurate models to understand the weather disasters we might see so communities have more time to prepare for what lies ahead. .