28 DeepMind - company behind Alpha Zero, which taught itself to play chess and in matter of hours could beat world's best players - has used same tech to discover new algorithm to speed up matrix multiplication. "Learn to code" won't always be thing. (www.newscientist.com) posted 2 years ago by CoolAsACucumber 2 years ago by CoolAsACucumber +29 / -1 DeepMind AI finds new way to multiply numbers and speed up computers Matrix multiplication - where two grids of numbers are multiplied together - forms the basis of many computing tasks, and an improved technique discovered by an artificial intelligence could boost computation speeds by up to 20 per cent 17 comments share 17 comments share save hide report block hide replies
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