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Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI’s Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy. Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. (www.wired.com)

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Was going to say that phototransistors have existed for 70 years https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodiode

But... Then realized that you said optical (light as medium, not light controlling electricity).