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German researchers have turned a fiber optic cable into a computational device that runs some AI models, using only light, better than silicon chips. (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's significantly less compirationally costly however because you only need to train and run a small, linear output transformation rather than a full nonlinear neural network.

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