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When DeepMind’s ‘AlphaCode’ Competed Against Human Programmers

Can real-world programming problems be solved with state-of-the-art AI? This month DeepMind explored that question, confronting the world with a fresh perspective on programming, and on the capabilities and limits of https://thenewstack.io/category/machine-learning/.

AlphaCode “placed https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-with-AlphaCode,” reported a DeepMind blog post, “marking the first time an AI code generation system has reached a competitive level of performance in programming competitions.”

The researchers then “fine-tuned” their system on a small dataset of competitive programming problems, solutions and even test cases, many of which were scraped directly from the CodeForces platform.

“Solving competitive programming problems is a really hard thing to do, requiring both good coding skills and problem-solving creativity,” Mitrichev said.