AlphaDev Solves Algorithms Faster Than Humans

Deepmind, Google’s AI branch, has just presented AlphaDev, a Reinforcement Learning agent that can discover faster sorting algorithms on its own.

AlphaDev’s advanced computer science algorithms outperform decades of human benchmarks from engineers and scientists.

These new algorithms are already part of two standard C++ coding libraries and are being used trillions of times per day by programmers worldwide. In addition, AlphaDev has also demonstrated potential in enhancing other essential computer science algorithms, such as hashing.

This represents a significant step towards using AI to optimize the world's code, one algorithm at a time.

Source:

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sorting-algorithms