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"Humans couldn't even imagine" seems like overselling it, but I'm sure that machine learning algorithms can brute force their way to chip designs no one has tri
by autoexec 3mo ago
"Humans couldn't even imagine" seems like overselling it, but I'm sure that machine learning algorithms can brute force their way to chip designs no one has tried before and that some of those might be useful to us. That seems like a pretty reasonable thing for a computer to do.
- ece 3mo agoMachine learning layer cake with some brute force crumbs.
- fooqux 3mo agoIt's marketing bullshit. For one, it's like proving a negative; you can't prove to me that humans couldn't have imagined it. Second, humans have already imagined quite a lot of crazy stuff...
- throwawayffffas 3mo agoIt really just means, irregular, unconventional, not in line with traditional designs.
- Izkata 3mo agoHere's a story about a genetic algorithm evolving a circuit that works with logic gates that aren't even connected, seemingly by using magnetic flux: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
- mallomarmeasle 3mo agoThanks, I was trying to recall that article. Fascinating stuff to this non-expert.