It will allow a computer to learn how to match cells from one slice to another by trial and error, as a human would, but with the infinite patience that humans lack.
In stepped the investment bank industry with another solution: We'll take your mortgages, securitize them, slice them into categories based on default risk, use computer models to match default risk with yield and sell them to buyers around the world.
At the risk of being too simplistic to make silicon wafers, which is what you use to make computer chips and solar cells, you take a great big ingot of very pure silicon metal and then slice it very thinly.