Deepmind S New Ai Code Generation System Is Now At Par With An Average Human

Google parent Alphabet’s subsidiary DeepMind AI has been developing various kinds of machine learning and AI systems that can perform complicated tasks. Now, the company has unveiled a new AI code-generation system called “AlphaCode,” which reached a competitive level of performance in programming competitions for the first time. Seemingly, it is at par with an average human coder and could potentially take away your job in the future!

It is revealed that AlphaCode can write computer programs at a competitive level, which is a first for an AI-based code-generation model. The company tested the AI’s abilities using competitions hosted on Codeforces. Ten contests (newer for AlphaCode’s skills) were selected and as a result, the AI was able to surpass a median competitor.

Oriol Vinyals, the principal research scientist at DeepMind AI told The Verge that AlphaCode was in its early stages of development. But, the result it produced led the team to develop a flexible problem-solving AI that can autonomously tackle coding challenges that require human-level skills and intuitions.