Singularity alert: AIs are already designing their own chips [Video]

Human intelligence and our collective wisdom are already becoming limiting factors in the rise of AI. Indeed, the only smart move at this point seems to be letting AIs design their own future hardware, right down to the microchip level.

AI has already been unlocking new technological advancements and progress in challenging fields lately – from accelerating renewable energy research by a matter of years to accurately detecting cancer. So when I attended the WCIT conference in Armenia last month, a talk on how AI assists chip design caught my attention.

Meeting the world’s ever-increasing demand for computing capabilities is quite a task. The processors in your phone, your laptop, and your car are already infinitesimally tiny and quick enough to precisely execute billions of instructions per second. And yet, we want the latest gadgets to do more and run faster than last year’s models, every year.

What does that look like on a processor? Consider that we’ve gone from packing …