I was very weakly involved in the optical computing area and watched not much happen over 40 yrs. My observations were existing CPUs just improved enough to render many of the optical computing promises unnecessary. So, I have always had skepticism many developing technologies that are over promoted. I think LLMs are great but are over promoted. I suspect there will be a lot of idle capacity that will serve as a platform for new projects. I'm thinking it may be worth looking into what will fill those voids: the excess capacity, the lowering of costs, the unemployed AI people looking for new projects.
Not my field, but I think DNA sequencing and analysis of new drugs on these platforms may in an area to consider.
I was very weakly involved in the optical computing area and watched not much happen over 40 yrs. My observations were existing CPUs just improved enough to render many of the optical computing promises unnecessary. So, I have always had skepticism many developing technologies that are over promoted. I think LLMs are great but are over promoted. I suspect there will be a lot of idle capacity that will serve as a platform for new projects. I'm thinking it may be worth looking into what will fill those voids: the excess capacity, the lowering of costs, the unemployed AI people looking for new projects. Not my field, but I think DNA sequencing and analysis of new drugs on these platforms may in an area to consider.
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