On: Competitive Programming with AlphaCode

[BoardsOfCanada]

Do I understand it correctly that it generated (in the end) ten solutions that then were examined by humans and one picked? Still absolutely amazing though.

[thomasahle → BoardsOfCanada]

No human examination was done.

But it generated 10 solutions which it ran against the example inputs, and picked the one that passed.

Actually I'm not sure if it ran the solutions against the example inputs or the real inputs.

[aliceryhl → thomasahle]

They used the real inputs. The example inputs were used to filter out which candidates to submit for the 10 tries.

[aliceryhl → BoardsOfCanada]

No, they gave the algorithm 10 tries and tested all of them, and said that it was solved if any one of them worked.