Programmers putting programmers out of work. LC
On Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 3:55:08 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > The same people that made AlphaZero, the chess and GO playing superstar, > and AlphaFold, the 3-D structure predicting program, have now come up with > "AlphaCode", a computer program that writes other computer programs in C++ > and Python. AlphaCode entered a programming competition with professional > human programmers called "Codeforces" and ranked in the top 54%. Not bad > for a first try, it seems like only yesterday computers could only play > mediocre chess and now they play it at a superhuman level. I don't see why > a program like this couldn't be used to improve its own programming, so I > don't think the importance of this development can be overestimated. > > Competition-Level Code Generation with AlphaCode > <https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode/competition_level_code_generation_with_alphacode.pdf> > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > aoz > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/bfbf9c0d-4df0-4ed7-9e58-ab8a68ded0e6n%40googlegroups.com.
