As my prof put it: "Every few years it's announced that analog computing is coming back. But everyone is still using digital computing only"
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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What class was that?
Some ai models perform at 4 bit resolution. Maybe there's a chance?
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If you are interested learning more, there was a veritasium video about analog chips where he quite well explained the working of and the usecases .
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I'm not sure with that information if internally they are analog or not. But at least it sounds like smart limit switches, which it does make sense to be more efficient than having a computer monitoring a signal and comparing it to the desired value.
This impressed me:
In August, IBM unveiled a prototype of a low-power analog chip designed specifically for speech recognition — it was able to detect 12 “wake words” more quickly and just as accurately as a digital system.
I'm always wary of extraordinary claims (Theranos and all) but this could potentially be interesting.
Very interesting!
Happy to see people recalling everybody about the analog nature of the world, in spite of big corps pushing for a cold fully digital metaverse
The Metaverse is cold because it has Zuckborg in it.