Light-based processing and machine learning featured heavily in San Diego at the 2024 SPIE Optics + Photonics conference. Enthusiasm was coupled with questions related to the real-world applicability and the merits of linear vs non-linear, and all-optical vs hybrid, approaches.
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Pile, D. Optical computing and artificial intelligence. Nat. Photon. 18, 1240–1242 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01582-0
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