When asked to create a sorting algorithm, AlphaDev came up with one that was 70 per cent faster than the best for lists of five pieces of data and 1.7 per cent faster for lists of over 250,000 items.

A self-driving vehicle has to detect objects, track them over time, ... As a result, their algorithm proved up to 10 times faster when compared to existing methods. “The car sees everything, but it ...