I am a beginner, please ask me. Can kicad implement language description to automatically generate schematics and PCBS? How to do that?
I wasn’t sure I should let this one out of the moderators queue.
No.
Thankfully no.
Forever no.
Until it is, no.
But ‘progress’ is not dictated by ‘us’. 
But, no.
No plans on this at the present time.
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Learn these words to put in a job ad: I have a million dollars and I will pay you to design the PCB I want. Oh, and get the million dollars first. 
PS: If it doesn’t have to work, I can do it for much cheaper. I have a lot of experience doing this (non-working boards).
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Sort of a bizarre question. If KiCad were to automatically generate those, what would you and I do? Go pick bananas?
FWIW 1-2 years ago I asked ChatGPT to design a power converter for me. It gave me some broadly generalized advice on how to do it but it did not give me a design. My wife has been playing a lot with AI recently. Between those two experiences, I do not think that AI really understands anything…yet. It only finds what it is trained on and often makes stupid mistakes. And (not MY opinion): There is a good chance that AI will get worse as more stuff on the web is AI BS, and AI trains on other AI BS.
Perhaps one of these days AI can replace us, but I hope that is loooooooong after I am “pushing up daisies”.
EDIT: For those of you who may have high near term expectations of AI: Just now my wife somehow was doing an AI supplied word jumble. Start with the letters DEBATE. (Yeah that is a word.) But the clue is something you do in the kitchen. After struggling for a couple of hours, it turns out that there is no other re-arranged word. DEBATE was the only word to be made with those letters and the AI was screwed up. Pretty good, huh? 
Why would anyone need that?
Yes I just realised that AI can make non-working boards cheaper than I can. Drat!
Let’s imagine for a second this existed.
What’s more likely? A bunch of mostly volunteers built it, or a massive company like autodesk?
Why would they sell it as a product, when it would be far more lucrative to sell as a service with a secret black box only they control?
Probably need to be pushing at least 6 decades in order to be familiar with the above…
Once you have described in enough detail what you want in a schematic and then in the PCB you are already quite a long way along with a design . . . educate yourself, your RI, and learn a valuable skill.
4 decades is enough.
Twenty chars
Does the answer have to be one word? There are 20 possibilities with 2 or 3 words: Internet Anagram Server : Anagrams for: debate The most likely possibility, eat bed, is more likely to be done in a bedroom, if at all.
have you tried “AI” … ie statistical models?
I asked Googles a simple question to prove a point to some friends
generate a picture of what the internals of a wired UK plug looks like
Here is the link to the conversation.
Apart from it being pretty much as far from reality as possible . . . I quite like it 
I have never tried AI myself. If it has access to all internet texts and ‘make decisions’ based on the frequency of appearing content then I wonder if AI thinks the earth is flat.
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Well, the small print on the bottom does say “Gemini can show incorrect information”
Aaah, you’ve beated me with that one…
I have been to the UK and Ireland a few times and used a “cobra-head” as any dumb consumer would. It is my understanding that it is sort of over-designed relative to the minimalist plug we have in the USA but I never disassembled one. While I cannot directly compare that image with anything I have seen, I am amused by:
- It looks overly complicated even compared to my complicated expectations.
- It sort of looks like it would not be able to plug in?
This all demonstrates how AI does not seem to really understand anything…I do not think it will take our jobs tomorrow. Give it a few more days…
Being that my wife is an ESL person, she also came up with that one. But for the benefit of any other ESL people on the forum: The past tense of “beat” is “beat”. “Beated” is not in the dictionary…
I can only hope that would be the worst of it. But I doubt that…
Yes, KiCAD can build a circuit for you. Just with a descrptive language.
Currently, you need to learn that language and how each word is expressed in very compact hyroglyphs (symbols, abstract pictures). Until now, no keyboard exists for that language, so you will need to select them with mouse clicks. To make sense of the words, you will have to connect them with lines (seems a bit primitive, but works).
Every schematic works, as long as you are a master of that language.
There are even some strange dialects. Like for the hyroghyph for “resistor”. But that really doesn’t make a difference.