I'm quoted in the article linked in the OP, and a couple other recent ones: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-latest-trick-writing-computer-code/ https://www.wire

I'm quoted in the article linked in the OP, and a couple other recent ones: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-latest-trick-writing-computer-code/ https://www.wired.com/story/ai-latest-trick-writing-computer... https://cacm.acm.org/news/253785-will-ai-rewrite-coding/fulltext?__s=mcydrchkkkzj8wy2wf1k https://cacm.acm.org/news/253785-will-ai-rewrite-coding/full... I think my optimism for deep learning methods here comes not from their ability to generate code from scratch but as a way to guide a search process in the space of programs. By analogy, Go and chess are also domains where approximations won't do, but DNNs have had excellent success in finding better search strategies for the game tree. That's the kind of thing that I think might be successful here.