Google's #DeepMind #artificialintelligence now can self-learn. It can teach…

It can teach itself, The Next Web reported (17 Oct 2016): "In a significant step forward for artificial intelligence, Alphabet's hybrid system -- called a Differential Neural Computer (DNC) -- uses the existing data storage capacity of conventional computers while pairing it with smart AI and a neural net capable of quickly parsing it." The AI also knows how to optimise its memory to accelerate future searching-learning. The Next Web added: "Instead of having to learn every possible outcome to find a solution, DeepMind can derive an answer from prior experience, unearthing the answer from its internal memory rather than from outside conditioning and programming." In other AI news the British Socialist newspaper the Morning Star commented on the #Singularity and AI, regarding concern about powerful multinationals shaping AI (17 Oct 2016): "Technologies shaping our world and determining the sustainability of human civilisation are commissioned by wealthy corporations. So uploaded human intelligence, machine learning and systems designed without human agency -- and perhaps without human values -- are ideas we all need to understand and influence."