Revolutionary AI System Improves Code Sorting After 10-Year Hiatus.

Google's DeepMind AI group has developed a reinforcement learning tool called AlphaDev that can develop highly optimized sorting algorithms without being trained on human code examples. AlphaDev gradually develops the ability to write tight, highly efficient code by treating programming as a game and minimizing the latency of the code as a score. The code produced by AlphaDev was incorporated into the LLVM toolchain, the first time some of the code had been modified in over a decade, and is estimated to be executed trillions of times a day.