[PowerElectronix]

For small stuff, sure. For something with more components I don't think it's ever gonna be useful. Routing a pcb is an np-hard problem and, imho, no AI has enough actual thinking capability to make a good job out of it.

[adwn]

The human brain hasn't solved NP-hardness, either. We make it work using heuristics and automation tools, which in turn use heuristics themselves. I see no reason why AI wouldn't be able to take the same approach.

[ablob]

What exactly do you mean by "solved NP-hardness"?

[altmanaltman]

I mean we already have seen this happen with AlphaDev. Not sure why AI would fail at working on NP-hard problems if our current way is to basically guess and keep trying until something clicks (something that is not difficult for an AI system that can just keep running).

[CamperBob2]

An AI that can thrash a Go grandmaster can route a PCB.

There's no reason to think a conventional LLM is the right approach, of course. But the LLM could delegate the task to a program it wrote, given the right prompting and the right feedback loop(s).