Re:Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video]
by KMag on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @01:50PM
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> google uses AI to design chips in 6 hours
No, Google's AI is floorplanning[0] (basically routing and layout) human-designed logic in 6 hours. That headline is misleading.
It's kind of like having a compiler will billions of optimization flags and using AI to select a pretty near-optimal set of flags for a particular human-generated source file. We wouldn't call the output an AI-designed program, even though such AI would be really helpful.
Google is using AI as a heuristic for decently fast approximate solutions to the floorplanning problem, where (IIRC) optimal solutions are NP-hard.
It's an important step forward, and presumably a big time saver, but they're nowhere near giving the AI an instruction set spec or examples of inputs and outputs ad having the AI generate the logic.
No, Google's AI is floorplanning[0] (basically routing and layout) human-designed logic in 6 hours. That headline is misleading.
It's kind of like having a compiler will billions of optimization flags and using AI to select a pretty near-optimal set of flags for a particular human-generated source file. We wouldn't call the output an AI-designed program, even though such AI would be really helpful.
Google is using AI as a heuristic for decently fast approximate solutions to the floorplanning problem, where (IIRC) optimal solutions are NP-hard.
It's an important step forward, and presumably a big time saver, but they're nowhere near giving the AI an instruction set spec or examples of inputs and outputs ad having the AI generate the logic.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorplan_(microelectronics)