Light does not “think” in any human sense. Still, under the right conditions, it can behave in a way that looks uncannily like a memory system.

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations -- it's a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few ...

Peking University, October 14, 2024: Fundamental to the development of artificial intelligence (AI), associative memory models of neural networks are designed to store and quickly retrieve information ...