Five lines of code could change the way we think about AI

Most artificial intelligence systems can be advanced by adding more: more computing power, more lines of code, more analysis, more neural networks, more machine learning. And this is great if you have large amounts of power and space at your disposal, like on a car, or a rocket ship, or in a data center. But if you don't have all that? Then you have to get simple and think creatively. That's what Johannes Overvelde and his team at AMOLF, a government-funded Dutch physics research institute, did in a new study released this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.