https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180425120203.htm

Known as Bayou, the Rice application was created through an initiative funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aimed at extracting knowledge from online source code repositories like GitHub. A paper on Bayou will be presented May 1 in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the Sixth International Conference on Learning Representations, a premier outlet for deep learning research. Users can try it out at askbayou.com.

Designing applications that can program computers is a long-sought grail of the branch of computer science called artificial intelligence (AI).