DeepMind AI can sort data faster than algorithms created by humans
Computer scientists have been optimizing the way computers sort data for decades to reduce milliseconds when returning search results, or alphabetizing contacts lists. Now DeepMind, based in London, has vastly improved sorting speeds by applying the technology behind AlphaZero — its artificial-intelligence system for playing the board games chess, Go and shogi — to a game of building sorting algorithms. Emma Brunskill is a computer scientist from Stanford University in California. She said, \”This is a very exciting result.\”
In a Nature1 paper, the system AlphaDev is described. It has created faster algorithms, which are now part of C++ libraries. They are used by programmers all over the world trillions of time per day.
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https://go.nature.com/3J3zQsu
