by Harry Pettit, Daily Mail
Google’s machine learning artificial intelligence software has learned to replicate itself for the first time. The firm first revealed its AutoML project in May – an AI designed to help the firm create other AIs. Now, AutoML has outdone human engineers by building machine-learning software that’s more efficient and powerful than the top human-designed systems.
The achievement marks the next big step for the AI industry, in which development is automated as the software becomes too complex for humans to understand.
The breakthrough could one day lead to machines that can learn without human input.