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Zwei Start-ups haben erstmals #Lichtprozessoren vorgestellt, die komplexe #KI-Anwendungen effizient berechnen.

Die Chips von #Lightmatter und #Lightelligence verarbeiten Daten mit #Photonen statt #Elektronen, verbrauchen weniger Energie und erzeugen kaum #Abwärme.

Erste Tests zeigen vergleichbare Leistung zu aktuellen #GPUs mit höherer #Energieeffizienz. Die Technologie steckt noch in der Entwicklung, gilt aber als vielversprechender Schritt für zukünftiges #Computing.

heise.de/news/Erste-Licht-Proz

heise online · Erste Licht-Prozessoren betreiben effizient KIBy Dr. Sabrina Patsch

“If you've ever maintained the same piece of software for more than a couple years, you'll understand how hard it is to pivot already-finished #tools to learn from #ParadigmShifts in the industry. Even if you try your hardest, it's very easy for the old way of doing things to be woven throughout your #codebase as assumptions.

As #JessFrazlle mentioned in her first post, this is why most #CAD software is not extensible. Most of them have assumptions about software that were true in 1990 but aren't anymore: that the #internet doesn't exist; that #GPUs don't exist; that clicking is easier than typing for most user interactions”

#software / #engineering / #API <zoo.dev/blog/api-first-approac>

ZooZoo: Why we’re building APIs firstAn introduction to why KittyCAD isn't a hardware design company, but rather a software infrastructure company for hardware design

I get the argument,

'Schmidt agreed with the US export controls introduced by the former US president Joe Biden, which restricted the sale of the microchips that power the most advanced AI system to 18 countries to slow adversaries’ progress on #AI research.'

But possibly recent announcements have demonstrated that assuming superiority (in this case #GPUs amongst other things) might blind you better ways to achieve the same goal - as #Chinese startup has done?

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Rogue states could use AI to do ‘real harm’, warns ex-Google CEOBy Rachel Hall