Survey on special purpose computer architectures for AI

In this survey, we will provide a short survey and classification on the current work in special purpose architectures to support AI applications. In spite of the growing importance of AI applications, work in the area of designing AI architectures are so diversified that articles were published in other areas besides Al, ranging from psychology, medicine, manufacturing, computer architecture, software engineering, and database management to industrial engineering, operations research, and the list grows. The literature search is also complicated by the fact that with the development of the Fifth-Generation Computer Systems, some work in this area is very recent and was published in many foreign countries. During our literature search to compile this survey, we systematically went through over sixty different journals published in various countries and proceedings from over fifty conferences in the last twenty years and over seventy books.