Question of the Month: How will AI change electronics design in the next two years?

Of course all of the above, but I would expect it to get used to generate documentation, reports and user manuals, maybe even test reports and the boiler plate in proposals. Not that I think these will be better, but people will pass off the work they don't want to do to an AI. A good test will be to see if AI can write winning proposals. (That are actually feasible)

I think AI could be good at many types of circuit design once they have the simulation stuff built in to the AI. Eventually it will be hard to tell what aspects of your design tools use AI and which don't.

I was writing a document today with some newly updated tools and the tools were suggesting how to complete my sentences as I was typing. The same thing will happen in circuit design - and a lot more if you want it.

It wouldn't take much of a smart program right now to take a BoM and make most of the correct connections, without even resorting to AI.

I chose 'writing code' because of course we're already seeing evidence of this from ChatGPT.  I think in the future AI will also be used to screen code.  I think it will infer the intent behind certain code snippets and flag anything that looks amiss.

For hardware design, I think there will eventually be curated reference designs that will be easily instantiated into schematics along with predefined routing for the layout stage.  I think the schematic and PCB tool will make suggested connections and the designer will accept or reject.

I believe that AI will bring both positives and negatives to society, so one day I am stepping into the pool with both feet and the next I want to keep anything AI at arm's length... but any way that AI saves on documentation will be fully embraced by me.   

For my personal use, AI is not an option. I like to do things my way or come here on a forum.

Today AI is emerging as one of the dominant technology field. Well, AI is useful and required in many ways but at the same time governments around the world needs to understand how to make policies so that AI and new technologies can be used for benefit of people and larger society and not the other way round...!!

I voted "Using AI to write code" but I think it can be also used for writing documentation.

Well, it's totally incapable of doing anything remotely acceptable currently, it's just a really nice autocomplete essentially. Letting it write docs/comments is the only thing it can do somewhat well, but even that has to be corrected by hand afterwards.

For now I voted for AI for Circuit Simulation. But the more I think about the usecase the more complex it becomes. So I parked it right there. May be it's a great topic for a brain storming session.

AI is not very useful in my position.  We do use some neural nets in some of our equipment, mostly to track the sun vs GPS location so not to point sensitive transducers at the sun.  AI may show up in future equipment, but probably not in the next two years.

Ai has already been a game changer in Electrical /electronics design. The hypetrain targets consumers, in professional development, its been around. From trace layouts, to mapping silicon, to running state machines, error prediction, correction, and similation, are all normal features in professional design suite.
now theres a chat feature.  whoop de do.