How to Make the Universe Think for Us - Quanta Magazine

Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors.

The group also implemented their scheme in an optical system where the input image and weights are encoded in two beams of light that get jumbled together by a crystal and in an electronic circuit ca… [+7171 chars]

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