Intel researchers create AI system that rates similarity of 2 pieces of code

Good news! This probably helps to e.g. prevent the reinvention of the wheel over and over again! There is so much code out there that does essentially the same thing (code redundancy)! This might also be a step to more automated code generation!



"In partnership with researchers at MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Intel scientists say they’ve developed an automated engine — Machine Inferred Code Similarity (MISIM) — that can determine when two pieces of code perform similar tasks, even when they use different structures and algorithms. MISIM ostensibly outperforms current state-of-the-art systems by up to 40 times, showing promise for applications from code recommendation to automated bug fixing. ..."



Intel researchers create AI system that rates similarity of 2 pieces of code | VentureBeat