Humans Beat DeepMind AI in Creating Algorithm to Multiply Numbers

Matthew Sparkes, *New Scientist*, 13 Oct 2022, via ACM TechNews, 17 Oct 2022

Jakob Moosbauer and Manuel Kauers at Austria's Johannes Kepler University
Linz bested an algorithm developed by artificial intelligence company
DeepMind with a program that can perform matrix multiplication more
efficiently. Earlier this month, DeepMind unveiled a method for multiplying
two five-by-five matrices in just 96 multiplications, out-performing a
more-than-50-year-old record. Moosbauer and Kauers reduced the process to 95
multiplications by testing multiple steps in multiplication algorithms to …

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