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 ...