AlphaDev was able to shave an instruction off of sort-3, sort-5, and sort-8, and even more off of sort-6 and sort-7. There was only one (sort-4) where it didn't find a way to improve the human code.

Jun 08, 2023 14:20:00 DeepMind announces AI `` AlphaDev '' that improves algorithms using deep reinforcement learning, and has already succeeded in speeding up sort algorithms and hash functions ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) system based on Google DeepMind’s AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language C++, can sort data up to three ...