Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending ...

“Sorting is still one of the most widely ... and placing them in order so that the resulting lines of code make up an algorithm. AlphaDev wins the game if the algorithm is both correct and ...

It’s useful to have AI come up with a new sorting algorithm; it’s a much bigger deal to build an AI that can learn how to write state-of-the-art code across a variety of tasks, he says.

“I think they’re going to be able to do that to things like sorting algorithms, and standard kind of compute algorithms. But it’s not going to be applied to… complex bits of code,” he says.

To enhance their performance, AlphaDev explored assembly instructions, which are used to create binary code for computers. After an exhaustive search, the system uncovered a sorting algorithm that ...

If you’re under the impression that something as simple as sorting numbers is dull, think again. This visualization lets you see and hear fifteen different algorithms sift their way through a ju ...

Finally, you can put away your sorting funnels and ball-handling gloves – [Anthony] has the solution. That’s right – it’s a delta robot, tasked with the job of sorting golf balls by color.

but these are important because they’re used by algorithms that sort longer lists. AlphaDev operated at the level of assembly instructions: code generated by automated compilers from code that ...

A video showing sorting algorithms in action may not sound like the most riveting concept in the world — but, then again, neither does watching other people play video games or unboxing gadgets ...

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 ...