Solving the compute crisis with physics-based ASICs

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physix · 35m ago

Started reading it. It's really fascinating topic. But as an outsider it's quite difficult to assess its potential.

How far away are we from seeing a real application of this in the AI space?

(It reminded me of an ex-colleague's company in Germany that makes analog computers https://anabrid.com.)

aifer4 · 2h ago

This is a perspective article I wrote with a number of researchers in unconventional computing, about solving problems in AI using physics-based chips. There is also a video of me discussing the paper on a livestream here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h_mf5usgvg

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Solving the compute crisis with physics-based ASICs

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