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A new AI chip can perform image recognition tasks in nanoseconds

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You need to enable JavaScript to view this site.The news: A , made by combining light-sensing electronics with a on a single tiny chip, can make sense of what it’s seeing in just a few nanoseconds, far faster than existing image sensors. Why it matters: is integral to many applications of AI—from to to smart sensors that act as our eyes in remote locations—and machines have become very good at responding to what they see. But most image recognition needs a lot of computing power to work. Part of the problem is a bottleneck at the heart of traditional sensors, which capture a huge amount of visual data, regardless of whether or not it is useful for classifying an image. Crunching all that data slows things down. A sensor that captures and processes an image at the same time, without converting or passing around data, makes image recognition much faster using much less power. The design, published in Nature today by researchers at the Institute of Photonics in Vienna, Austria, mimics the way animals’ eyes pre-process visual information before passing it on to the brain. How it works: The team built the chip out of a sheet of tungsten diselenide just a few atoms thick, etched with light-sensing diodes. They then wired up the diodes to form a neural network. The material used to make the chip gives it unique electrical properties so that the photosensitivity of the diodes—the nodes in the network—can be tweaked externally. This meant that the network could be trained to classify visual information by adjusting the sensitivity of the diodes until it gave the correct responses. In this way, the smart chip was trained to recognize stylized, pixelated versions of the letters n, v, and z.&nbsp; Limited vision: This new sensor is another exciting step on the path to moving more AI into hardware, making it quicker and more efficient. But there’s a long way to go. For a start, the eye consists of only 27 detectors and cannot deal with much more than blocky 3x3 images. Still, small as it is, the chip can perform several standard supervised and unsupervised machine-learning tasks, including classifying and encoding letters. The researchers argue that scaling the neural network up to much larger sizes would be straightforward.&nbsp; Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet. So I wanted to know: What does it have on me?What Gran Turismo Sophy learned on the racetrack could help shape the future of machines that can work alongside humans, or join us on the roads.And it’s giving the data away for free, which could spur new scientific discoveries.But the company has had to rush out fixes to the image-making model’s worst flaws to do so.Discover special offers, top stories,upcoming events, and more.

You need to enable JavaScript to view this site.The news: A , made by combining light-sensing electronics with a on a single tiny chip, can make sense of what it’s seeing in just a few nanoseconds, far faster than existing image sensors. Why it matters: is integral to many applications of AI—from to to smart sensors that act as our eyes in remote locations—and machines have become very good at responding to what they see. But most image recognition needs a lot of computing power to work. Part of the problem is a bottleneck at the heart of traditional sensors, which capture a huge amount of...

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