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A CPU-based design generated by ChatGPT becomes a reality

Here we are quite realistic with Generative Artificial Intelligence, specifically with cases like ChatGPT, in which it can help you eliminate minor and repetitive tasks, but in many cases it requires the supervision of a human in the same way that a child requires the supervision of a adult when doing certain crafts. In the most recent story of someone using ChatGPT to get things done, a person has created a CPU based on a design that ChatGPT has generated.

The QTCore-C1 chip was created by Dr. Hammond Pearce of New York University Tandon using ChatGPT. This university contacted Tom's Hardware to let them know that the QTCore-C1 has been successfully manufactured, along with a video in which he is seen operating some lights. Christmas. The creator himself affirms that generative AIs could open chip design to the public.

They say that ChatGPT has generated an integrated circuit, which at least lights up Christmas lights

The Efless Challenge blog indicates that the QTCore-C1 chip design was created entirely through conversations with GPT-4 de OpenAI, in addition to the fact that each component and each signal also attributes its authorship to GPT-4. They claim that it was also able to fix bugs found in testing and provide insight into the design of the instruction set architecture.

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They advise that ChatGPT did not design the CPU in its entirety, but rather that researchers at New York University used ChatGPT to translate its indications and capabilities into a hardware descriptor language, such as verilog. Additionally, the QTCore-C1 chip It is a mere functional block in a more complex overall design.

Dr. Pearce explains that it is “an architecture based on an 8-bit accumulator that can act as a kind of predictable coprocessor for the main Caravel core”. Therefore, it has many limitations. It is limited to basic mathematical and logical operations, can interact with multiple input and output lines, measure time with an internal counter, send and receive values, and interrupt requests to the host system.

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Benjamin Rosa

Madrileño whose publishing career began in 2009. I love investigating curiosities that I later bring to you, readers, in articles. I studied photography, a skill that I use to create humorous photomontages.

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