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Experiment: you think LLMs can innovate on chip design? Ask it to do something much simpler: invent a new better sorting algorithm. We use names such as Timsort
by _1tem 2y ago
Experiment: you think LLMs can innovate on chip design? Ask it to do something much simpler: invent a new better sorting algorithm. We use names such as Timsort or Djikstra for a specific reason: because it requires rare human ingenuity to invent such things. If an LLM can’t invent a new sorting algorithm that is meaningfully better in some way than existing known algorithms, then good luck on something much harder like chip design.
- klabb3 2y agoYou can set the bar lower. Have it invent another n log n sorting algorithm. Or omit all merge sort implementations from training data and see if it can re-invent it. But I certainly agree in general. It’s been years and there are still no independent novel discoveries afaik.
- devoutsalsa 2y agoAs long as the chip isn’t expected to count the number of Rs in strawberry, I don’t see why an LLM couldn’t design a better chip.