AI can now write its own code

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https://www.lukor.net/2018/04/30/ne...own-code/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=gplus

Computer scientists have created a deep-learning, software-coding application that can help human programmers navigate the growing multitude of often-undocumented application programming interfaces, or APIs.

Designing applications that can program computers is a long-sought grail of the branch of computer science called artificial intelligence (AI). The new application, called Bayou, came out of an initiative aimed at extracting knowledge from online source code repositories like GitHub. Users can try it out at askbayou.com.

“The days when a programmer could write code from scratch are long gone.”

“People have tried for 60 years to build systems that can write code, but the problem is that these methods aren’t that good with ambiguity,” says Bayou co-creator Swarat Chaudhuri, associate professor of computer science at Rice University. “You usually need to give a lot of details about what the target program does, and writing down these details can be as much work as just writing the code.”

“Bayou is a considerable improvement,” he says. “A developer can give Bayou a very small amount of information—just a few keywords or prompts, really—and Bayou will try to read the programmer’s mind and predict the program they want.”

 

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