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The chip ran Linux benchmarks at about i486 speeds.
- exohuman ( @exohuman@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
The speed is not impressive, but the fact that did it at all is interesting.
- AggressivelyPassive ( @agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ) 17•1 year ago
Is it, though?
It’s a clearly defined spec, a clearly defined utility function and a very limited set of building blocks. It’s not trivial, but not super impressive either.
And given the nature of this kind of research and the trackrecord of Chinese scientists in particular, I’d assume it’s getting less and less impressive the deeper you look.
- dave ( @dave@feddit.uk ) 4•1 year ago
In the early 1990s, I was peripherally involved in some research that used genetic algorithms to design an FPGA to take input signals and output a video signal showing them on a monitor (yes, and old school CRT with VGA input). As you say, defined problem, known approach, etc. It was impressive at the time, and the only real difference now is the scale at which these things can work.
- Wesleysnoops ( @Wesleysnoops@reddthat.com ) 1•1 year ago
What kind of long term things can happen?
- TheTrueLinuxDev ( @TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
You’re likely right, AI can infer some decision making on where pre-defined circuits should go and how it should be arranged, but most of the actual circuit works itself were done by human designer. Otherwise we would see AI attempting to make a circuit board that computes 9 bits byteword or something.
You could do all of that on a very small neural net even by using simple genetic algorithm in neural net with few metrics to define what are the performance consideration, test cases, and validations that the neural net must pass.
- sub_o ( @sub_@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
There a story about AI learning some industry secrets / trade secrets
https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-workers-leaked-company-secrets-by-using-chatgpt
I wonder if this would end up enabling sanctioned states to step around the chip import ban or nuclear weapon constructions.