This is the first change to this part of the sorting algorithm library in over a decade, says DeepMind. Read more: DeepMind AI finds new way to multiply numbers and speed up computers ...

Mankowitz and his colleagues started with an algorithm for sorting a list of three items just as a proof of concept. The best human-devised version of this algorithm involves 18 instructions.

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending ...

Memristor-led system could be applied in areas including smart traffic image sorting and financial risk control scoring, study author says.