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.

Set a machine to program a machine OUT of the way, human, I've got this covered. A machine learning system has gained the ability to write its own code. Created by researchers at Microsoft and the ...