{"id":165622,"date":"2023-06-12T07:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T12:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/deepmind-ai-creates-algorithms-that-sort-data-faster-than-those-built-by-people"},"modified":"2023-06-12T07:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T12:24:41","slug":"deepmind-ai-creates-algorithms-that-sort-data-faster-than-those-built-by-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/deepmind-ai-creates-algorithms-that-sort-data-faster-than-those-built-by-people","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind AI creates algorithms that sort data faster than those built by people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deepmind-ai-creates-algorithms-that-sort-data-faster-than-those-built-by-people2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Computer scientists have, for decades, been optimizing how computers sort data to shave off crucial milliseconds in returning search results or alphabetizing contact lists. Now DeepMind, based in London, has vastly improved sorting speeds by applying the technology behind AlphaZero \u2014 its artificial-intelligence system for playing the board games chess, Go and shogi \u2014 to a game of building sorting algorithms. \u201cThis is an exciting result,\u201d said Emma Brunskill, a computer scientist at Stanford University, California.<\/p>\n<p>The system, AlphaDev, is described in a paper in <i>Nature<\/i><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nature.com\/3J3zQsu#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>, and has invented faster algorithms that are already part of two standard C++ coding libraries, so are being used trillions of times per day by programmers around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer scientists have, for decades, been optimizing how computers sort data to shave off crucial milliseconds in returning search results or alphabetizing contact lists. Now DeepMind, based in London, has vastly improved sorting speeds by applying the technology behind AlphaZero \u2014 its artificial-intelligence system for playing the board games chess, Go and shogi \u2014 to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165622","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}