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Does anyone else spot the irony that we've been using AI (simulated annealing) to help us design circuit board layouts for decades, only it isn't an LLM so I guess it doesn't count?
Annealing works, and therefore isn't AI.
I guess people don’t think of SA as artificial intelligence. Does it even rely on neural networks or other traditional machine learning tools?
It doesn't rely on Neural Networks, but it does rely on gradient descent/hill climbing, which is basically what a neural network does under the hood.