{"id":78057,"date":"2018-04-26T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T22:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-military-just-created-an-ai-that-learned-how-to-program-software"},"modified":"2018-04-26T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T22:22:21","slug":"the-military-just-created-an-ai-that-learned-how-to-program-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-military-just-created-an-ai-that-learned-how-to-program-software","title":{"rendered":"The Military Just Created An AI That Learned How To Program Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-military-just-created-an-ai-that-learned-how-to-program-software.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tired of writing your own boring code for new software? Finally, there\u2019s an AI that can do it for you.<\/p>\n<p>BAYOU is an deep learning tool that basically works like a search engine for coding: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbayou.com\/\">tell it what sort of program you want to create<\/a> with a couple of keywords, and it will spit out java code that will do what you\u2019re looking for, based on its best guess.<\/p>\n<p>The tool was developed by a team of computer scientists from Rice University who received funding both from the military and Google. In <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1703.05698.pdf\">a study published<\/a> earlier this month on the preprint server arXiv, they describe how they built BAYOU and what sorts of problems it can help programmers solve.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/military-created-ai-learned-to-program\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/military-created-ai-learned-to-program\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of writing your own boring code for new software? Finally, there\u2019s an AI that can do it for you. BAYOU is an deep learning tool that basically works like a search engine for coding: tell it what sort of program you want to create with a couple of keywords, and it will spit out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78057","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}