Still 1.5 year old Apple A9 chip in the iPhone 6S is thrashing the Snapdragon in multiple test. That shows (1) the quality of the team designing the A-series processors, (2) Apple is will to spend more money to put a larger chip into the iPhone...
Picture tagging in Facebook based on computer vision. AI is being implemented in medical diagnostics. Deepmind has demonstrated reduction in Data centre power consumption.
As a experimental researcher for the last 16 years, I don't find this surprising. Publishing industry has becoming a scam. Wherein journals like Nature or its sister journals are charging $1000s to be open access. They don't care whether it is reproducible....
Who is going to build "TheFacebook" of academic journals. Journal publishers have become SCAM artist. Opening countless new journals and charging hundreds to thousands of dollars to get into open access articles or charging millions from institutes. This market is ripe for disruption plus scientific data is going to be the next "refined OIL" in the data and AI economy...
Very interesting paper, optical circuits have always been interesting option for computing whether it is in the form of plasmonics (surface plasmon + electronics) or linear quantum computing (with similar circuits reported in the manuscript). However, the challenge to translate this into any practical application involves solving a lot of engineering challenges....