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To be clear, it doesn't seem like New Scientist realised this, but they haven't actually made a glass block that does this. They've just simulated one.



Yea, the part of the article where they described the training procedure as if they were re-arranging impurities in a physical piece of glass beggared belief.


They've simulated a physical system using digital hardware and software that would operate like a read-only optical neural network analog if it existed in a physical substrate.

I suppose the next stage is to develop another digital analog of a physical system which can decide for readers if the original digital analog of a physical system is "real AI".

Presumably with sufficient training it would be able to read and assess New Scientist articles about its own development.




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