AI Google Deepmind Representative Algorithms beyond Human Specialty
One key question in artificial intelligence is that the models go beyond resetting and rebuilding what they have learned and produce really new ideas or insights.
A new project from Google Deepmind shows that with a few clever tricks, these models can at least surpassed human expertise by designing specific types of algorithms – including things that are useful for the AI itself.
The company’s latest artificial intelligence project, Alphaevolve, combines its Gemini AI programming skills with a way to test the effectiveness of new algorithms and an evolutionary way to produce new designs.
Alphaevolve has faced more efficient algorithms for several types of calculations, including a method for matrix calculations that improves an approach called the Streasesen algorithm for 56 years. The new approach improves the calculation efficiency by reducing the number of calculations needed to produce the result.
Deepmind also used Alphaevolve to create better algorithms for several real -world problems, including tasks planning inside datacenters, drawing computer chips, and optimizing the design of algorithms used to build large language models such as Gemini itself.
“These are three important elements of the modern AI ecosystem,” says Pushmeet Kohli, President of AI Science in Deepmind. “This superhuman programming representative is capable of performing specific tasks and goes beyond what is known for them.”
Matej Balog, one of the research on Alphaevolve, says it is often difficult to know if a large language model has faced a really new writing or code, but it can be shown that no one has offered a better solution to specific problems. “We have shown exactly that you can discover something that is remarkably new and effective,” says Balog. “You can really be sure that what you have found cannot be in training data.”
Sanjeev Arora, a Princeton University scientist who specializes in algorithm design, says that the progress made by Alphaevolve is relatively small and only applies to algorithms that include the search for potential response space. But he adds, “Search is a general idea that can be used for many settings.”
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Alphaevolve shows the potential of artificial intelligence to provide completely new ideas through continuous testing and evaluation. Deepmind and other artificial intelligence companies hope that artificial intelligence representatives will gradually learn to have a more general genius in many areas, perhaps in the event of a particular problem, creating innovative solutions for a business problem or new insights.
Josh Germany, an assistant professor at Colombia University, who works on algorithm design, says Alphaevolve creates new ideas instead of rebuilding what is learned during training. “This has to do something new and not just work again,” he says.
