DevOps Articles

Google’s DeepMind Extends AI with Faster Sort Algorithms

Computing pioneer Grace Hopper once https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/27/always-done/ that the most dangerous phrase in data processing is ‘We’ve always done it this way.” In that spirit, Google’s DeepMind searched for a faster sorting algorithm using an AI system — and the company’s researchers are now claiming the new algorithms they’ve found “will https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphadev-discovers-faster-sorting-algorithms.” Google emphasized that sorting algorithms affect billions of people every day — from how online search results get ranked to how data gets processed.

DeepMind focused on the algorithms for sorting short sequences — with between three and five elements — because they’re the most commonly used (often called when sorting even larger sequences).

Instead AlphaDev can handle most sequence lengths as part of its first check (for how the length relates to the number two).