The key question in artificial intelligence is how often models go beyond only a group and remixing what they have learned, and produce really recent ideas or insights.
The recent Google Deepmind project shows that thanks to a few clever amendments, these models can at least exceed human specialist knowledge design of some types of algorithms – including those that are useful for the progress of AI itself.
The latest AI project of the company, called AlphaevolveIt combines the skills of coding its AI Gemini model with the method of testing the effectiveness of recent algorithms and the evolutionary method of creating recent projects.
Alphaevolve has developed more effective algorithms for several types of calculations, including a method of calculations including matrices, which a better approach called the Strassen algorithm, which has been reached for 56 years. The recent approach improves computing efficiency by reducing the number of calculations required to obtain the result.
Deepmind also used Alfaevolve to come up with better algorithms for several real problems, including tasks related to planning in the data center, sketching computer systems designing and optimizing the design of algorithms used to build huge language models, such as Gemini itself.
“These are three key elements of the modern artificial intelligence ecosystem,” says Pushmeet Kohli, head of AI for Science at Deepmm. “This superhuman coding agent is able to undertake some tasks and go much beyond what is known to them in terms of solutions.”
Matej Balog, one of the research in Alphaevolve, says that it is often complex to know if a huge language model has invented a truly novel letter or code, but it can be demonstrated that no one came up with a better solution to some problems. “We showed very carefully that you can discover something that is new and possible, correctly,” says Balog. “You can really be sure that what you found in training data.”
Sanjeev Arara, a scientist from Princeton University specializing in algorithm designing, says that the progress made by Alphaevolve is relatively miniature and concerns only algorithms that include searching for the space of potential answers. But he adds: “Search is quite a general idea about many settings.”
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Alphaevolve shows AI’s potential to develop completely novel ideas through continuous experiments and evaluation. Deepmind and other AI companies hope that AI agents will gradually learn to show more general ingenuity in many areas, perhaps ultimately generating brilliant solutions to a business problem or recent information when they receive a specific problem.
Josh Alman, an assistant professor from Columbia University, who is working on algorithm design, says that Alphaevolve seems to generate recent ideas, and does not remix things he has learned during training. “Something new, not just a group, must do it,” he says.