{"id":184324,"date":"2024-03-03T15:24:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/neural-networks-made-of-light-research-team-develops-ai-system-in-optical-fibers"},"modified":"2024-03-03T15:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:24:57","slug":"neural-networks-made-of-light-research-team-develops-ai-system-in-optical-fibers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/neural-networks-made-of-light-research-team-develops-ai-system-in-optical-fibers","title":{"rendered":"Neural networks made of light: Research team develops AI system in optical fibers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-networks-made-of-light-research-team-develops-ai-system-in-optical-fibers3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is pivotal in advancing biotechnology and medical procedures, ranging from cancer diagnostics to the creation of new antibiotics. However, the ecological footprint of large-scale AI systems is substantial. For instance, training extensive language models like ChatGPT-3 requires several gigawatt-hours of energy\u2014enough to power an average nuclear power plant at full capacity for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Mario Chemnitz and Dr. Bennet Fischer from Leibniz IPHT in Jena, in collaboration with their international team, have devised an innovative method to develop potentially energy-efficient computing systems that forego the need for extensive electronic infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>They harness the unique interactions of light waves within optical fibers to forge an advanced artificial learning system. Unlike traditional systems that rely on computer chips containing thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electronic+components\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electronic components<\/a>, their system uses a single optical fiber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is pivotal in advancing biotechnology and medical procedures, ranging from cancer diagnostics to the creation of new antibiotics. However, the ecological footprint of large-scale AI systems is substantial. For instance, training extensive language models like ChatGPT-3 requires several gigawatt-hours of energy\u2014enough to power an average nuclear power plant at full capacity for several [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,873,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184324","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}