On-chip photonic synapses herald new age of computing

[HEXUS]

These photonic synapses can operate 1000x faster than those in the human brain.

Read more.

[plexabit]

Too bad we'll all be dead when this hits the market.

[globalwarning]

Too bad we'll all be dead when this hits the market.

Or, thank god we'll be dead...

[CyberScooby]

This is a huge first step!

[Luke7]

So when can I replace my own neural synapses with these?

[QuorTek]

very interesting read and I can see how it could be used as well, notjust for AI but for eg. medical reasons like blind people, reconstruction of artificial nerves and making people who is paralyzed able to walk and run again, mostly since stimcells seem like taboo everywhere for some odd reason.

[mtyson]

Related news - artificial neurons compute faster than the human brain:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01290-0