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There’s a Class 100 semiconductor cleanroom inside this backyard shed. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works to c/videos@lemmy.world

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 12 points 1 week ago

Well, that's hella impressive.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 week ago

I saw this today. I am gonna be watching this mans journey with great interest. The last litho channel I saw was at the level of transistor density of the 80s. Found it! the Z2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5ycm7VfXg

Does anyone know what the current best "youtuber" cpu is?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was someone who wrote up a bootstrapping guide for technology assuming an apocalypse sent us back to sticks and stones. I think that guide went much further back on the level of lithography you could meaningfully get to while restarting tech.

I am curious what size features this guy can create in his lab.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm guessing he can't really do much of a chip per se. Sounds more like he can do only base components.

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

There are other YouTubers who have managed to make meaningful chips (on the order of 1000 transistors) out of basically a garage setup with salvaged and/or improvised equipment. I would be shocked if this guy can't do better than that with his much more sophisticated setup.

[+] edsq@lemmy.world -6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

AI was clearly used to write the script for this video. That’s super disappointing, and I hope AI wasn’t used to generate any other part of this.

For example, at 1:27:

You don’t just walk into the cleanroom, you transition into it.

Classic bizarre LLM style. I’m not going to support any creator on Patreon who can’t even be bothered to use their own words to communicate.

[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

3 Year old account, this is your first comment? U sure u aint the AI?

[–] edsq@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This was just the first time it felt important enough to comment. I was really excited by the premise of the video and really disappointed to find evidence of AI. Because it’s sneaky and good at approximating human speech, I thought it was worthwhile pointing that out so that others who may have missed it can properly evaluate this person’s effort and expertise.

[–] coriza@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Thank you for saying it. I have seen this on YouTube more and more and I thought I was going crazy. Videos that seems normal, done by the person and narrated by them but the script was was full of this "not just X, Y" type of pattern, and I was like "man if you gonna bother to record your narration why not at least fix the obvious LLM vibe of the text". Like, if you gonna use AI and try to be sneak about it why not so it right. It is so middle of the road, like, not fully automated AI slop, but also not fully your creation. I question if not other parts were IA also, like the narration is now so good that I can't pick it up, specially if not my native language. In any case, it is a shame, it like ruins all the effort the creator put elsewhere.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do not agree that it's bizarre given what was happening in the video. You're failing a reverse turing test.

[–] edsq@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

See the “Em-Dash Pivot” here. The “Not just X – Y” is a common LLM tic. Walk over to your nearest vibe coded slopware website for plenty of examples.

And it is bizarre. Who describes gowning up to enter a clean room as “transitioning” into it? Why the extra verbal flair right there, of all places? A human reserves that kind of emphatic phrase for something actually important, not the difference between walking into a room and “”””transitioning”””” into it, whatever that is supposed to mean.

[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You dont just "walk" into a clean room, because u would drag dust in. You transition into a clean room by dedusting yourself, geting into suit that prevents skin flakes from contaminating the room. I find nothing bizarre about how this is phrased. And to be fair i aint sure if you paranoid or trolling.

[–] edsq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you, I do know how cleanrooms work. None of my friends, family, or colleagues that work in cleanrooms have ever described cleanroom gowning in this way. The overly excited emphasis on this mundane point combined with the weird phrase "transition into it" are indeed bizarre.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's an llm tick because humans do it. This is a completely invalid form of analysis, if it was an em-dash that would only be evidence because standard keyboards don't have an em dash key.

[–] edsq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I explained why humans don't have this tic in the comment you're replying to. LLMs imitate humans, but they're not perfect.

Regardless of whether it happened here, would you agree that undeclared use of AI is problematic? Or is that what we're really arguing about?

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The emphasis makes sense because of the nature of the project, a human would do it in this context.

Undeclared use of ai is problematic but I care verv little, there are bigger problems.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Someone is not familiar with cleanrooms