Penn Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip has the potential to radically accelerate the processing speed of computers while also reducing their energy consumption.
So first we tricked rocks into doing math, and now we’ve figured out how to trick glass into doing math? This is truly amazing.
We tricked the same rocks we use for doing math into bending light like the glass, and we use that for doing math, yes.