Scientists illuminate a path to quantum AGI with new light-based chips

MagicShel , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Do I really want to click on this? It’s going to be full of utter bullshit… fuck. Edit follows

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Jesus fucking Christ. Abandon all hope, ye who enter! I’ve lost brain cells. It’s a wild fucking orgy of buzzwords.

Here’s what I’ve got: light based computation has been around since the 60’s. Yet somehow it hasn’t supplanted electricity-based chips. But now someone has made a chip for training AI out of it. I guess that would just be a GPU? Anyway it’s more efficient because light. Furthermore, maybe someday this will be relevant to the quantum through some as-yet unimagined mechanism. But this is awesome because light is faster than electricity. It. Just. Is.

jabathekek , 1 month ago

Collect this article as NFT ->

Dear lord…

MagicShel , 1 month ago

Fucking Christ. I didn’t see that because I had it in reader mode.

eerongal , 1 month ago

I guess that would just be a GPU?

Actually would either be a TPU (tensor processing unit) or NPU (neural processing unit). They’re purpose built chips for AI/ML stuff.

BreadstickNinja , 1 month ago

Okay, science guy, but can I use it to replace human workers? I don’t really get all this computer stuff, but I need something to tell the shareholders.

MonkderVierte , 1 month ago

I mean, most real quantum computing stunts (like, using quantum particles and effects for computing and data manipulation) are based on/manipulated by light. I too see integration of graphene and fibre-optics in CPU as a first step in this direction. Btw, we might have Terrahertz chips in the future.

Didn’t read the article so far, oracling about AGI is bullshit.

BetaDoggo_ , 1 month ago

New record for most buzz words in a headline.