The US military is funding an AI that's learning to write its own code

If you're tired of writing your own boring code then finally, or you're a programmer that is just wistfully wishing for a day off once in a while, then, hot on the heels of another Artificial Intelligence (AI) so called "codeless programming" saviour, Microsoft's DeepCoder, a new AI agent called BAYOU has arrived on the scene. BAYOU, which you can try for yourself here, and which is described as a "system for generating API idioms," or "snippets of code that use API's," is a deep learning program that, put simply, works like a search engine for coding. Tell it what sort of program you want to create using a couple of carefully chosen keywords and, based on its best guess, BAYOU will spit out the java code that will do what you're looking for. BAYOU was developed by a team of computer scientists from Rice University who received funding both from the US military and Google to develop it, and they published a paper on it on arXiv where they describe how they built it and what sorts of problems it can help programmers solve. During its development BAYOU read the source code of over 1,500 Android apps, over 100 million lines of Java in all, which was then fed through its neural net to create an AI that, yes, can create and program other software.