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 Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI's Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy

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Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-needs-enormous-computing-power-could-light-based-chips-help/