The Power of Computer RAM is About To Change Bigtime

Random Access Memory (RAM) has, relatively, been the go-to for storage since the turn of the millennium: this is due to its exceedingly fast processing and computing speed. It’s difficult to imagine a greater invention with better capabilities–or, at least, it would have been difficult until now.

The inner workings of RAM appear complex at first when, in reality, the method RAM uses is quite basic. Simply put, extremely small electromagnets become magnetized on a board. A voltage passes through the magnets and either flips the magnets as “0” or “1”. In other words, the language of computers.

Conventionally, RAM utilizes magneto-resistive memory–which is good and all, but a team of scientists at Hebrew University of Jerusalem have made a fascinating find that could possibly overshadow this orthodox method.

In layman’s terms, the discovery showed the allowance of laser beams to affect the magnetic states of solids. The astounding results were recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, Physical Review Research.

More specifically, the scientists found that moving light waves back and forth at high speeds can control magnets.

“This discovery has far-reaching implications–particularly in the domain of data recording using light and nano-magnets,” said Amir Capua, head of Hebrew University’s Spintronics lab concerning the breakthrough. “It hints at the potential realization of ultra-fast and energy-efficient optically controlled MRAM and a seismic shift in information storage and processing across diverse sectors.”

The team, so successful in their approach, were capable of measuring the “amplitude of the magnetic field of light, its frequency, and the energy absorption of the magnetic material,” said the team.

In a statement to Live Science, Capua commented on the importance of the newfound discovery.

“We’ve arrived at a very elementary equation describing this interaction. It lets us completely reconsider optical magnetic recording and navigate our way to a dense, energy-efficient, cost-efficient optical magnetic storage device that doesn't even exist yet.”

An Even New Frontier in Engineering: Synthetic Reality

It’s hard to imagine an individual in the 2020s who hasn’t heard at least a little about Artificial Intelligence. Indeed, when computer scientists picture the future at the moment, all eyes are on the magnificent advancements AI may soon bring.

But, there’s another unexplored territory yet widely known–one technology that can move us even further in the direction of a computer-assisted world: Synthetic Reality, and it’s the AI of AI.

What is Synthetic Reality?

At the moment, it’s only theoretical, but Synthetic Reality denotes a virtual AI world designed by AI itself. Essentially, think of the movie, The Matrix.

Such a system would require immense amounts of data in order to construct worlds that reflect real behaviors, actions phenomena.

Anderson Rocha, head of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Campinas, states that Synthetic Reality is the equivalent of attaching an artificially generated story to a type of virtual media.

"Now you can create everything: the text, the image, and the audio, all through AI," says Rocha.

It is not a stretch of the imagination to see AI simply becoming “more AI” as we head toward the next decade, and performing greater complex, detailed creations. 

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