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An AI model designed a functional RISC-V CPU in less than 5 hours. - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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Left: The outputs of booting up the Linux operating system. Right: The performance of generated CPU (i.e., CPU-AI) is compared against commercial CPUs on the Dhrystone benchmark, and CPU-AI performs comparably to the human-designed Intel 80486SX CPU.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In addition, the generated Boolean function is almost zero tolerance to inaccuracy, otherwise, CPUs will be malfunctioned and cause a huge amount of loss. A recent case in 2017 is that the Intel Atom C2000 bug affected many famous vendors, among which Cisco prepared 125M dollars to replace related products32. [...] In this article, we report a RISC-V CPU automatically designed by a new AI approach, which generates large-scale Boolean function with almost 100% validation accuracy (e.g., > 99.99999999999% as Intel)

Oh good, that was going to be my question. A new CPU is all well and good, but if you don't validate it to prove it doesn't have some weird bug, then it's worthless.