Science Daily  January 7, 2021 Convolutional neural networks have been central to the artificial intelligence revolution, but existing silicon technology increasingly presents a bottleneck in processing speed and energy efficiency. An international team of researchers (Australia, China, Canada) has demonstrated an optical neuromorphic processor for artificial intelligence which operates faster than 10 trillion operations per second (TeraOPs/s) and is capable of processing ultra-large scale data, enough to achieve full facial image recognition, something that other optical processors have been unable to accomplish. The system uses a single processor and was achieved using a new technique of simultaneously interleaving the data […]