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In case anyone feels déjà vu, Popular Mechanics wrote about this professor's lab in Jan 2025, with almost the same title: "AI Designed Computer Chips That the Human Mind Can't Understand".

I feel a bit of unease when I read this title, not because of the threat of AI, but because the prevailing aphorism that "RF is black magic" is a slap in the face to the millions of physicists and RF engineers who DO understand every bit of this. It's a fun harmless anti-intellectual saw that I don't believe is harmless at all. We need more RF engineers and telling people it's all "black magic" and "wizardry" (and worst of all, saying "even RF engineers don't understand RF") makes it seem like it's not worth studying.