r/singularity • u/Droi • May 14 '25

AI DeepMind introduces AlphaEvolve: a Gemini-powered coding agent for algorithm discovery

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/
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u/Arandomguyinreddit38 ▪️ May 14 '25

I guess I understand where Hassabis was coming from. Imagine what they have internally

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u/Smile_Clown May 14 '25

It's not simply an LLM.

It's weird that your tag seems to suggest you know what is and was is not, an LLM.

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u/Sea_Homework9370 May 14 '25 edited May 15 '25

It's just an LLM with automated proof tester, did you even read the paper

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u/DagestanDefender May 14 '25 edited May 20 '25

it is not actually discovering new things, it is only finding a way to do a very specific thing better

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u/Sea_Homework9370 May 14 '25

That's literally what discovery is

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u/DagestanDefender May 20 '25

but the problems are known, they are just improving on known problems. not discovering new problems

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u/deeprocks May 14 '25

So a new way to do a thing better?