The military just created an AI that learned how to program software

Finally, there's an AI that can do it for you. BAYOU is an deep learning tool that basically works like a search engine for coding: tell it what sort of program you want to create with a couple of keywords, and it will spit out java code that will do what you're looking for, based on its best guess. The tool was developed by a team of computer scientists from Rice University who received funding both from the military and Google. In a study published earlier this month on the preprint server arXiv, they describe how they built BAYOU and what sorts of problems it can help programmers solve. Basically, BAYOU read the source code for about 1500 Android apps, which comes out to 100 million lines of Java.