| > but i didn't find them addressing it explicitly in the text Yes, this is exactly what bothers me about this article and about a few similar articles published in the past, that they do not contain any evidence that their claims about the usefulness of AI in design are true. In TFA it says that the role of AI is replacing the electromagnetic simulator in the optimization process, by guessing the behavior of the structure, which is many orders of magnitude faster than a simulation. This sounds plausible, but in order to believe this I would want to see the differences between AI guesses and real measurements, in the case of structures with geometries that are very different from those used in the training of the AI. Also I would want to see exactly with which simulators they have compared the speed of the AI model. There are various simulation approaches for electromagnetic fields and electronic circuits, that can trade-off accuracy for speed, so I am not convinced that AI inference takes necessarily much less time than some faster low-accuracy methods of simulation, which would still be more accurate and more reliable than AI guesses. |