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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america starts mass production of the first cis male chip
wtf they made technological innovation woke
DEI but the I stands for innovation
Get ready to learn ternary buddy
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
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This is what they used to code the woke mind virus 
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Hybrid Stochastic Number (HSN) – which combines traditional binary numbers with stochastic or probability-based numbers.
Vibes based reasoning
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)
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
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
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.
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I have put in a request for the original paper. Let's hope they share.
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death to cis
Hell nah, the AI got pronounce now
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.
huh? this is a novel hybrid binary + stochastic processor that has nothing do to do with ternary computation
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.
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.
it seems to me at least to be the most logical interpretation.
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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.
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.
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
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.