computation

This convergence of computation and biology will usher in an era not only of curing disease but of preventing it altogether.

OpenAI plans to use the AMD chips for inference functions, or the computations that allow AI applications such as chat bots to respond to user queries.

The technology, which promises to power certain computations that are virtually impossible for today’s computers, could transform everything, including the way companies make medicine, invest money, deliver internet and encrypt information.

"A strong case can be made that it isn't computation that is sufficient for consciousness but being alive," he says.

They demonstrated a fully integrated photonic processor that can perform all the key computations of a deep neural network optically on the chip.