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[-] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago

China: "Hey babe, I'm gonna do AI stuff".

Hexbear: "Awww, that's so nice."

West: "Hi, I'm gonna do AI stuff."

Hexbear: "Hello! Human resourses!"

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

wtf they made technological innovation woke

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

DEI but the I stands for innovation

[-] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago

america starts mass production of the first cis male chip

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago

get-ready-to-learn-chinese-buddy Get ready to learn ternary buddy

[-] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

yes-honey-left Plz for the thousandth time stop calling every piece of software and tech "AI", there's no such thing as General Intelligence in modern computers

[-] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago

This is what they used to code the woke mind virus monke-beepboop

[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

happy pride flag-non-binary-pride

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

Hybrid Stochastic Number (HSN) – which combines traditional binary numbers with stochastic or probability-based numbers.

Vibes based reasoning

[-] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

How is this different than the soviet ternery computers? Is the AI here just a buzzword and its literally just a ternery chip? Or is there something else that genuinely sets it apart? (I have been tuning out anything "AI" for so long now that i dont know what an "ai" chip is)

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

Li’s team had been exploring alternatives since 2022. Their breakthrough came with the proposal of a new numerical system – Hybrid Stochastic Number (HSN) – which combines traditional binary numbers with stochastic or probability-based numbers.

Sounds to me like it's not ternary at all. But also sounds like it's really purely for AI

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

is there something else that genuinely sets it apart

maybe? depending on the kernel of truth buried under the headline

It's known that associative memories (and some other neural networks) have memory capacities that scale more favorably with the size of the alphabet of their representations than the number of units of computation

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Well, it's binary instead of ternary logic. And also, they are using a really wierd way of storing numbers if the article is anything to go by. Although what they are describing would actually dramatically increase the power loss rather than decreasing it, so I am going to look at the original paper to what was actually done.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

The piracy sites are not working catgirl-cry

I have put in a request for the original paper. Let's hope they share.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

enby gang rise up!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

im sorry but that's not a Chinese innovation, but a Soviet one. it's honestly kinda heartbreaking to see the utter erasure of Soviet technological prowess, especially in socialist places.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

huh? this is a novel hybrid binary + stochastic processor that has nothing do to do with ternary computation

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

a hybrid binary/stochastic processor can still be viewed as a form of ternary computation because it effectively utilizes three states of information: the two binary states and the probabilistic state introduced by the stochastic component. This alignes with the principles of ternary logic.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

the two binary states and the probabilistic state introduced by the stochastic component

Is that what it's even doing? The article is written very confusingly.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

it seems to me at least to be the most logical interpretation.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Hell nah, the AI got pronounce now

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Veritasium did a video on an American company doing this over a year ago. So it might be the first mass production, but it's not the first chip

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

What matters in the end is who's able to actually start deploying this kind of tech at scale. The idea of analog chips has been around for a very long time, but looks like China will be the first to start making serious use of them.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

death to cis

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Oh, I assumed it was some poly-state thing, but they've just moved from binary to ternary.

Still very cool though, it's one of those things that sounds like a dumb sci-fi but actually moving away from binary to more states potentially offers some major advantages.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Those things were used by the Sons of Ether (EDIT: Virtual Adepts) in World of Darkness. It was considered reality bending technomagic in that setting.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago
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