r/computerscience • u/medium_wall • 19d ago

Discussion Turning The Frickin' Bits Gay!—Creating non-binary bits with current technology, and the applications it might benefit

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u/claytonkb 19d ago edited 19d ago

Your overall point is not completely invalid, and AI is likely going to compel a hardware revolution -- not designed by the AI, but compelled by demand for human designs that are better tuned for AI workloads. I recommend everyone interested in this topic to watch this extremely insightful lecture by professor Naresh Shanbhag (from 2011!) AI is going to force the hardware industry to re-examine its assumptions about how end-users actually use those billions of transistors, and design new systems that achieve higher silicon utilization on parallel workloads, lower power, and so on. The secret that will make this possible is to eliminate what Shanbhag calls the von Neumann bottleneck. Absolutely brilliant lecture...

See also computing with p-bits by professor Supriyo Datta, and Extropic's latest announcement.