The Market for Optics in AI

Tom Hausken

How machine learning is shaping the photonics industry.

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The release of ChatGPT brought mainstream attention to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models. Optics can enable machine learning (ML)—a type of AI used to train such models—in many ways, including through interconnects in the data centers that make ChatGPT possible and through neuromorphic processors. ML models can also be used to enhance optical systems in ways that are downstream or separate from the system itself.

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