DeepMind’s AlphaCode attains ‘average’ rating in programming competition

A team of researchers at DeepMind has tackled another difficult task—generating computer code to satisfy a natural language request. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes the approach they used in creating their AI app and outline how well it did when pitted against human programmers. J. Zico Kolter with Carnegie …

Finding simplicity within complexity: Engineer develops method that can predict behavior, improve weather forecasting

Picture a tall stately grandfather clock, its long pendulum swinging back and forth, over and again, keeping rhythm with the time. Scientists can describe that motion with an equation, or dynamical model, and though there are seemingly hundreds of factors contributing to the sway, (the weight of the clock, the material of the pendulum, ad …