{"id":152339,"date":"2022-12-09T21:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T03:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/deepminds-latest-ai-project-solves-programming-challenges-like-a-newb"},"modified":"2022-12-09T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T03:24:25","slug":"deepminds-latest-ai-project-solves-programming-challenges-like-a-newb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/deepminds-latest-ai-project-solves-programming-challenges-like-a-newb","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind\u2019s latest AI project solves programming challenges like a newb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deepminds-latest-ai-project-solves-programming-challenges-like-a-newb.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s DeepMind AI division has tackled everything from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2019\/01\/an-ai-crushed-two-human-pros-at-starcraft-but-it-wasnt-a-fair-fight\/\">StarCraft<\/a><\/em> to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/11\/deepmind-ai-handles-protein-folding-which-humbled-previous-software\/\">protein folding<\/a>. So it\u2019s probably no surprise that its creators have eventually turned to what is undoubtedly a personal interest: computer programming. In Thursday\u2019s edition of Science, the company describes a system it developed that produces code in response to programming typical of those used in human programming contests.<\/p>\n<p>On an average challenge, the AI system could score near the top half of participants. But it had a bit of trouble scaling, being less likely to produce a successful program on problems where more code is typically required. Still, the fact that it works at all without having been given any structural information about algorithms or programming languages is a bit of a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s DeepMind AI division has tackled everything from StarCraft to protein folding. So it\u2019s probably no surprise that its creators have eventually turned to what is undoubtedly a personal interest: computer programming. In Thursday\u2019s edition of Science, the company describes a system it developed that produces code in response to programming typical of those used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}