Artificial intelligence is reaching a physical limit: moving data consumes more energy than computing it. The Age of Light explores how photonics and neuromorphic architectures enable human-centered, energy-efficient intelligence, embedding AI directly in hardware at the edge of reality.
Intelligence has always been a slippery concept. Is it the speed at which we solve equations, the breadth of knowledge we accumulate or the subtlety of the choices we make? Philosophers have long debated what it means to be intelligent and in the age of artificial intelligence, these questions take on new urgency. Superintelligence — a level of cognitive capability that far surpasses human intelligence — forces us to confront not just what intelligence is, but what intelligence ought to be.
