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I have some concerns about this future of relying on an "AI" to design PCBs. 1. Circuit board design shouldn't be easy and shouldn't be available to everyone.

I have some concerns about this future of relying on an "AI" to design PCBs. 1. Circuit board design shouldn't be easy and shouldn't be available to everyone. PCB's and the components used require a lot of natural resources. In my opinion, we should be reducing the waste and harvesting the resources from PCB's that are thrown away every day. 2. The flaws or bugs in your logic will potentially end up in your customer's products. This happens today, but typically on a smaller scale that can easily be traced to the root issue. How will your company handle the situation when faulty products are determined to be because of your AI driven logic? 3. I'm so tired of seeing "AI" as a marketable term. A bunch of code that is written by humans to do something is not AI, it's just software.

firethief 8y ago
> 1. PCB's and the components used require a lot of natural resources. In my opinion, we should be reducing the waste and harvesting the resources from PCB's that are thrown away every day. This is a good point that I'm not seeing a way to interpret as an argument against making PCB design easier. > 3. I'm so tired of seeing "AI" as a marketable term. A bunch of code that is written by humans to do something is not AI, it's just software. Software replacing skilled professionals seems to me to meet a usefully strict definition of "AI", but I guess that's somewhat a matter of taste.
- patricksli 8y ago
  Yeah, we know that A.I. is an overused term nowadays. But a lot of our techniques are taken straight out of AAAI proceedings. The problem is too hard to not take advantage of the latest techniques.