{"id":120269,"date":"2021-03-07T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/nanoprinted-high-neuron-density-optical-linear-perceptrons-perform-near-infrared-inference-on-a-cmos-chip"},"modified":"2021-03-07T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T19:56:24","slug":"nanoprinted-high-neuron-density-optical-linear-perceptrons-perform-near-infrared-inference-on-a-cmos-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/nanoprinted-high-neuron-density-optical-linear-perceptrons-perform-near-infrared-inference-on-a-cmos-chip","title":{"rendered":"Nanoprinted high-neuron-density optical linear perceptrons perform near-infrared inference on a CMOS chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoprinted-high-neuron-density-optical-linear-perceptrons-perform-near-infrared-inference-on-a-cmos-chip2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, machine learning permeates everyday life, with millions of users every day unlocking their phones through facial recognition or passing through AI-enabled automated security checks at airports and train stations. These tasks are possible thanks to sensors that collect optical information and feed it to a neural network in a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in China have presented a new nanoscale AI <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+circuit\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical circuit<\/a> trained to perform unpowered all-optical inference at the speed of light for enhanced authentication solutions. Combining smart optical devices with imaging sensors, the system performs complex functions easily, achieving a neural density equal to 1\/400th that of the human brain and a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computational+power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computational power<\/a> more than 10 orders of magnitude higher than electronic processors.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine empowering the sensors in everyday devices to perform artificial intelligence functions without a computer\u2014as simply as putting glasses on them. The integrated holographic perceptrons developed by the research team at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology led by Professor Min Gu, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, can make that a reality. In the future, its neural density is expected to be 10 times that of human brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, machine learning permeates everyday life, with millions of users every day unlocking their phones through facial recognition or passing through AI-enabled automated security checks at airports and train stations. These tasks are possible thanks to sensors that collect optical information and feed it to a neural network in a computer. Scientists in China have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,4,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}