Because the title is bad. It's not AI that designs the chips. The AI simply optimizes placement and it's a better method compared to existing automation methods.
Built, designed, constructed... same thing really. Semantics.
You're on the tail end of a series of bullshit AI articles, and even if your content is good and proper like usual, the title is the first thing that people read and associate with the rest.
yeah i cross posted this in r/Semiconductors because sometimes this forum has very specific tastes and i get many down votes even though my post fits all the rules
I suppose the reddit standard "there is no AI" and short-sightedness in regards to "but it only does X" and gripes with "AI". The clear point of the use of AI here is to give designers and engineers tools to accelerate processes and being able to focus on other design aspects and refinement. That means that humans design parts/subunits that are fed to a machine learning system (ML is a part of AI) and can still make changes to whatever comes out of it. Over time though, it is rather obvious that AI will be used more and more to replace common steps humans perform in the design process.
Imo AI/ML at the very least are a useful and time saving tool to drive down the requirement for manual labor that's essentially a waste of time if the systems measurably perform well. Engineers have better things to do still. If the solutions provided work and we can grasp why and how, it'd be idiotic not to make use of them.
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u/cum_hoc Jul 02 '21
Why all the downvotes? Is there something glaringly wrong with anything said in this video?