{"id":150409,"date":"2022-11-17T00:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/ai-on-a-photonic-chip-conducts-image-recognition-at-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2022-11-17T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:23:54","slug":"ai-on-a-photonic-chip-conducts-image-recognition-at-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/ai-on-a-photonic-chip-conducts-image-recognition-at-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"AI on a photonic chip conducts image recognition at the speed of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-on-a-photonic-chip-conducts-image-recognition-at-the-speed-of-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers implemented a type of AI called a deep neural network into a photonic (light-based) device. In doing so, they\u2019ve come closer to making a machine that processes what it \u201csees\u201d like humans do, very quickly and efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the photonic deep neural network can classify a single image in less than 570 picoseconds, or nearly 2 billion images per second. To put things into perspective, the frame rate for fluid footage sits between 23 and 120 frames per second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirect, clock-less processing of optical data eliminates analog-to-digital conversion and the requirement for a large memory module, allowing faster and more energy-efficient neural networks for the next generations of deep learning systems,\u201d wrote the authors from the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers implemented a type of AI called a deep neural network into a photonic (light-based) device. In doing so, they\u2019ve come closer to making a machine that processes what it \u201csees\u201d like humans do, very quickly and efficiently. For instance, the photonic deep neural network can classify a single image in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150409","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}