Light-Based Computing Revolution: Powering ChatGPT-Type Machine Learning Programs with Enhanced Optical Neural Networks

ChatGPT’s capacity to produce polished essays, emails, and code in response to a few simple inquiries has garnered international attention. Researchers at MIT has reported a method that has the potential to pave the way for machine-learning programs many times more capable than the one responsible for ChatGPT. Furthermore, their technology might consume less energy than the state-of-the-art supercomputers powering today’s machine-learning models.

The team reports the first experimental demonstration of the new system, which uses hundreds of micron-scale lasers to…