In our paper published today in Nature, we introduce AlphaDev, an artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses reinforcement learning to discover enhanced computer science algorithms – surpassing those honed by scientists and engineers over decades.

AlphaDev uncovered new sorting algorithms that led to improvements in the LLVM libc++ sorting library that were up to 70% faster for shorter sequences and about 1.7% faster for sequences exceeding 250,000 elements.

  • ericjmorey@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I agree. There’s a lot that automation can do that we generally know can be done, but don’t because the limited development resources are allocated towards easier payouts.