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"Deepmind's AI Is Learning About the Art of Coding"

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>: Jun 07 05:46PM -0500 "Deepmind's AI Is Learning About the Art of Coding" https://www.wired.com/story/deepminds-ai-is-learning-about-the-art-of-coding/   "AlphaDev has made small but significant improvements to decades-old C++ algorithms. Its builders say that's just the start."   "But last year, an AI system developed by engineers at Google's Deepmind improved on great by just enough to matter. The system, which Deepmind calls AlphaDev, was tasked with coming up with a new way to sort short sequences in numbers in C++, the popular coding language. It meant going under the hood and having the AI build new algorithms in assembly code—the instructions that bridge the gap between programming languages like C++ and computer hardware. When a C++ developer tells the computer to "sort," those commands are converted into machine-readable code that tells a computer's memory and processor exactly what to do: where to move data, and how to change it. It's where bits meet the metal."   "That comes with significant constraints, of course. "These are tiny, tiny programs," he adds—totaling no more than a few dozen instructions in assembly code. But those tiny programs often represent big bottlenecks for computer performance, having been optimized as far as people can push them. Overall, AlphaDev's new C++ sorting algorithms are 1.7 percent more efficient than the prior methods when sorting long sequences of numbers, and up to 70 percent faster for five-item sequences. At scale, these improvements add up, Mankowitz says. Since the AI-written code was submitted to Libc++, a major open-source library for C++, he estimates the algorithms have been used trillions of times a day."   This may be the limit for AI on coding.   Lynn

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