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#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Difference Between Computing and Communication
It's all somehow related to the second law thermodynamics and that the universe is an information process. So okay sorry for that tangent. Let me say one more thing just to clarify communication ideally does not change the information. It moves it from one place to another but it is preserved. Okay. All right that's beautiful. So then the electron versus light distinction and why are electrons good at computation and light good at communication? Yes. Electrons interact strongly with one another. They're charged particles. If I pile a bunch of them over here they're feeling a certain amount of force and they want to move somewhere else. Light by contrast photons of light which are the discrete packets of energy
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