{"id":93295,"date":"2019-07-08T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/ai-made-from-a-sheet-of-glass-can-recognise-numbers-just-by-looking"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:24:23","slug":"ai-made-from-a-sheet-of-glass-can-recognise-numbers-just-by-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/ai-made-from-a-sheet-of-glass-can-recognise-numbers-just-by-looking","title":{"rendered":"AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-made-from-a-sheet-of-glass-can-recognise-numbers-just-by-looking2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Donna Lu<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the smartest piece of glass in the world. Zongfu Yu at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and his colleagues have created a glass artificial intelligence that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2163960-computers-that-calculate-with-light-could-make-superfast-ai\/\">uses light<\/a> to recognise and distinguish between images. What\u2019s more, the glass AI doesn\u2019t need to be powered to operate.<\/p>\n<p>The proof-of-principle glass AI that Yu\u2019s team created can distinguish between handwritten single digit numbers. It can also recognise, in real time, when a number it is presented with changes \u2013 for instance, when a 3 is altered to an 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Donna Lu It\u2019s the smartest piece of glass in the world. Zongfu Yu at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison and his colleagues have created a glass artificial intelligence that uses light to recognise and distinguish between images. What\u2019s more, the glass AI doesn\u2019t need to be powered to operate. The proof-of-principle glass AI that Yu\u2019s [\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-93295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93295","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=93295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}