Weird AI-Designed Chips Outperform

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https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-ai-unveils-strange-chip-functionalities.html

Moreover, the AI behind the new system has produced strange
new designs featuring unusual patterns of circuitry. Kaushik
Sengupta, the lead researcher, said the designs were unintuitive
and unlikely to be developed by a human mind. But they
frequently offer marked improvements over even the best
standard chips.

"We are coming up with structures that are complex and
look randomly shaped, and when connected with circuits,
they create previously unachievable performance. Humans
cannot really understand them, but they can work better,"
said Sengupta, a professor of electrical and computer
engineering and co-director of NextG, Princeton's industry
partnership program to develop next-generation communications.

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It's the "humans really cannot understand them" bit
that kinda worries me .......

This is gonna happen a LOT more often Really Soon, and
not just in chip design.

Then soon, it's no longer 'tech' to us, just 'magic'.
Make yer incantations, slit the throat of a goat, wave
yer wand ........ full circle back to the 0-th century.

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I've found that some innovations like that are not adapted because very few
understand them. Sometimes, a generation or two later, they figure it out.

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Post by v***@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com
I've found that some innovations like that are not adapted because very few
understand them. Sometimes, a generation or two later, they figure it out.

With more and 'better' AI now heavily involved, don't
expect to figure it out for much longer. As said, it
will all become as "magic".