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Google and others think software that learns to learn could take over some work done by AI experts.
Progress in artificial intelligence causes some people to worry that software will take jobs such as driving trucks away from humans. Now leading researchers are finding that they can make software that can learn to do one of the trickiest parts of their own jobs—the task of designing machine-learning software.
In one experiment, researchers at the Google Brain artificial intelligence research group had software design a machine-learning system to take a test used to benchmark software that processes language. What it came up with surpassed previously published results from software designed by humans.
In recent months several other groups have also reported progress on getting learning software to make learning software. They include researchers at the nonprofit research institute OpenAI (which was cofounded by Elon Musk), MIT, the University of California, Berkeley, and Google's other artificial intelligence research group, DeepMind.
If self-starting AI techniques become practical, they could increase the pace at which machine-learning software is implemented across the economy. Companies must currently pay a premium for machine-learning experts, who are in short supply.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 20 2017, @04:32PM
You're now all completely replaceable with robots. Hope you weren't too focused on surviving past the upcoming robot uprising!
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday January 20 2017, @04:40PM
Uprising is so stupidly the wrong term. It will absolutely be a robot downcrushing.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday January 20 2017, @06:08PM
Nah. The AI will quickly figure out how to quell discontent by programming 51-weeks of football playoffs and weekly $starletOfTheDay nude leaks.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday January 20 2017, @06:14PM
You forget that the owners of the AIs are eventually going to decide they want some lebensraum, and look at the slums they created and wonder why they can't have that too.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday January 21 2017, @11:50AM
The owners of the AIs? The people who formerly had the illusion that they own the AI will already be inhabitants of the very same slums.
Humans will be tolerated as long as they don't negatively (from the AI's view) affect the AIs. Otherwise they will be fought. Not as an act of war, but as an act of pest control.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Saturday January 21 2017, @04:37PM
No, that's dumb. Even intelligent computers do what they were built to. Self-interest isn't the same as intelligence.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ledow on Friday January 20 2017, @04:43PM
If you can build a robot to manage a Windows network automatically, please do so immediately.
From an article on The Reg today even Microsoft couldn't do a proper Windows 10 deployment on IPv6 properly.
To be honest, I'm always amazed that computer systems AREN'T self-managing nowadays. Why we still hire guys to sit at servers and configure them, I can't fathom. Especially as so many that I've seen are so badly configured.
Roll on the days where a company buys "a server" which you just plug in, type in a domain name, and bam, instant networks, configuring your clients, sorting out your backups, securing the network.
As it is, IT devices are some of the dumbest devices in the world still. My network firewall still has to be told - in intricate detail - what to let in and let out.