Jun 08, 2023 14:20:00 DeepMind announces AI `` AlphaDev '' that improves algorithms using deep reinforcement learning, and has already succeeded in speeding up sort algorithms and hash functions ...

When asked to create a sorting algorithm, AlphaDev came up with one that was 70 per cent faster than the best for lists of five pieces of data and 1.7 per cent faster for lists of over 250,000 items.