[ExI] AI designs chips that humans don't understand

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AI slashes cost and time for chip design, but that is not all
By John Sullivan on January 6, 2025

<https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2025/01/06/ai-slashes-cost-and-time-chip-design-not-all>
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What is more, 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 random
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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Now, what could possibly go wrong?

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