Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence
From The Register

THIS is what I have been waiting for.

Oh wow. Now they can build those chip factories in the USA. or anyplace more defensible/isolated without worrying about paying pesky people.

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POTENTIAL VON NEUMANN ALERT! ABORT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

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I actually want superior artificial intelligence, preferably in the flavor of the Optimalverse. Self-improving, self-evolving machines are the only way I reason we can get there.

I don't want to abort, I want MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!

wow. One step closer to singularity.

Finally

Whilst this is interesting, and In my opinion a little bit concerning, material for construction of the subsequent generations of processors. We already have a price hike for GPU's because of the cryptocurrency fad.

So what happens if we get our values satisfied through friendship and ponies...but it's G5?

Or Pony Life?!

I'd be a lot happier if it wasn't Google behind it.

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It's a good deal more than just a fad. Crypto is already starting to elevate people out of poverty in places like Venezuela.

I learned about this interesting direction in optical computing, currently reading..

https://lighton.ai/blog/

...here comes the Optimalverse

More likely, here comes the papercliper.