The algorithm addresses something called the library sorting problem (more formally, the “list labeling” problem). The challenge is to devise a strategy for organizing books in some kind of sorted ...

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.

NEWS 07 June 2023 DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by people The technology developed by DeepMind that plays Go and chess can also help to write code.