A team of US researchers is currently working on developing computer programs that develop other programs without human intervention, the German News Agency reported on Saturday.
According to the Phys.org website, Justin Gottschlich, director of the machine programming research group at Intel, announced the creation of a new machine learning system that designs its own code. They call the system MISIM.
Gottschlich explained, "Intel's ultimate goal for machine programming is to democratize the creation of software. When fully realized, machine programming will enable everyone to create software that creates computer programs."
According to the team, the system analyzes a snippet of code and, because it can "understand" what the code is trying to accomplish, it seeks out code from its repository and searches for code designed for similar tasks.
It can then offer suggestions for faster or more effective coding to achieve the required task.
MISIM is not the first system to compare code snippets, but its creators say its accuracy rate was up to 40 times that of its nearest competitors.