Educational Technology

March 30, 2021

This Chip for AI Works Using Light, Not Electrons

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:28 am

Will Knight, Wired

Lightmatter says the computing and power demands of complex neural networks need new technologies like these to keep up. As demand for artificial intelligence grows, so does hunger for the computer power needed to keep AI running. Lightmatter, a startup born at MIT, is betting that AI’s voracious hunger will spawn demand for a fundamentally different kind of computer chip—one that uses light to perform key calculations. “Either we invent new kinds of computers to continue,” says Lightmatter CEO Nick Harris, “or AI slows down.”

https://www.wired.com/story/chip-ai-works-using-light-not-electrons/

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