Google: Google DeepMind's game-playing AI just found another way to make code faster

DeepMind's run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues. Last year it used a version of its game-playing AI AlphaZero to find new ways to speed up the calculation of a crucial piece of math at the heart of many different kinds of code, beating a 50-year-old record. Now the company (recently renamed Google DeepMind...