Google's new artificial intelligence can design computer chips in under six hours

Google has developed an artificial intelligence that it says is capable of creating computer chips in'under six hours,' according to a new study. The research, published in Nature, notes that humans can take'months' to design specialized chips for its tensor processing units - a type of chip used in AI - but the reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm is better and faster than humans at creating more complex AI. 'The RL agent becomes better and faster at floorplanning optimization as it places a greater number of chip netlists,' the researchers wrote in the study. 'We show that our method can generate chip floorplans that are comparable or superior to human experts in under six hours, whereas humans take months to produce acceptable floorplans for modern accelerators.' Google developed an artificial intelligence that it says is capable of creating computer chips in'under six hours' The new process was used in Google's latest TPU chip, Anna Goldie, one of the study's co-authors said The chip floorplan is where parts such as CPUs, GPUs and memory have been placed on the silicon.