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New systems deployed at 195 mail processing centers nationwide.

Data is eating the world, byte after byte after byte.

Plus: Google boffin who resigned over AI ethics controversy, joins Apple Katyanna Quach Mon 10 May 2021 // 18:15 UTC Share Copy In Brief What do you know? The US Postal Service uses AI technology and have GPU servers running computer vision algorithms to track items being delivered across the country. The system is called the Edge Computing Infrastructure Program (ECIP, pronounced EE-sip) and is designed to run inference operations on machine learning models using Nvidia’s GPUs. The USPS relies on deep-learning systems to perform image recognition tasks, and hopefull...

USPS Turns to AI at the Edge to Boost Package Processing vm/iStock.com email An edge artificial intelligence platform recently implemented by the U.S. Postal Service is helping federal insiders trace the many millions of packages it processes each week in a matter of hours instead of multiple days. Open-source software from Nvidia is also delivering AI models to make more use of data collected in systems at 195 Postal Service sites across the nation, the company confirmed Thursday. “The federal government has been for the last several years talking about the importance o...