Wired

Deepmind’s AI Is Learning About the Art of Coding

In the field of computer science, there is perhaps no more fundamental task than to sort. Bubble, heap, merge—take your pick. The methods for reordering data inside a computer have been theorized to ...
Ars Technica

AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decade

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order ...
GIGAZINE

DeepMind announces AI `` AlphaDev '' that improves algorithms using deep reinforcement learning, and has already succeeded in speeding up sort algorithms and hash functions

Google DeepMind, which is famous as the developer of AlphaGo, has announced AI `` AlphaDev '' that applies deep reinforcement learning to improve various computing algorithms. At the same time, a ...
Gizmodo

Sorting Algorithms Are Mesmerizing When Visualized

If you’re under the impression that something as simple as sorting numbers is dull, think again. This visualization lets you see and hear fifteen different algorithms sift their way through a jumbled ...
MIT Technology Review

Google DeepMind’s game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster

The AI-generated algorithms are already being used by millions of developers. DeepMind’s run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues. Last year the company used a version of its ...