Scaling compute in the age of AI + taking inspiration from nature
We’ve had such an exciting few weeks at ARIA! Now in post, our Programme Directors (PDs) are in discovery mode, developing their first set of world-changing programmes.
Some PDs are questioning the status quo, while others are actively exploring an opportunity space from which one or more programmes could emerge.
Today, we're digging into our first published opportunity space - how nature computes better and whether AI offers a new foothold for alternative hardware. We’d love you to read this document, which will lead to a funding opportunity in the near future.
Q+A with Suraj: exploring how nature computes better
NB: This image is an excerpt from Suraj’s document “Nature Computes Better v1”.
Suraj has spent his career working on advanced computing from multiple technological vantage points. He’s experienced aspects of the technology lifecycle from scientific birth to commercial translation, and done so as an engineer inside a large corporate lab, a scientist at a government research institute, and most recently as a co-founder/CTO of a venture-backed startup. He talks us through his vision for finding new ways to process information by exploiting principles found ubiquitously in nature.
In this interview, we dig into:
Why more efficient computation is so critical for the challenges we face as a society
Taking inspiration from processes performed in nature to address limits of computation
How an interdisciplinary approach will benefit exploration
Read the full interview with Suraj HERE.
Are you an expert in existing digital paradigms, hardware or algorithms? Are you a biologist, chemist or electro engineer who is excited by the intersection of physics + computation? Dive into Suraj’s opportunity space here and share your ideas here.