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In ML/AI space, at least some people thing analog computing is the next big thing, https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlfreund/2021/09/23/ibm-research-says-analog-a
by phillypham 3y ago
In ML/AI space, at least some people thing analog computing is the next big thing, https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlfreund/2021/09/23/ibm-research-says-analog-ai-will-be-100x-more-efficient-yes-100x/?sh=9b4e7f4129b3 https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlfreund/2021/09/23/ibm-resea.... It hasn't taken off, yet, though.
- calamari4065 3y agoI know, I've had my eye on this topic for a while. Honestly it seems like a perfect application. Neural networks are analog systems. An analog computer can represent neurons very accurately and the entire network is inherently parallel, for free! I can't wait to see what comes out of this research
- spacecadet 3y agoI agree.
- rusticpenn 3y agoMy research was in this direction. We already know that these analog neural chips could be orders of magnitude faster than digital equivalents. There is also a lot of military research going on in this area for few decades. However architecture innovations are much faster on software level and dedicated hardware approaches have not been able to catch up. Once things slow down on software level, slowly hardware llms could become the norm.
- calamari4065 3y agoI don't venture too far into analog electronics so I don't know for sure, but it seems like an analog FPGA type system could really take off.
- rusticpenn 3y agoCypress has been doing something like that for a long time now. Reconfigurable Analog electronics is an interesting field.