Google developing a computer so smart it can program ITSELF

Google's secretive artificial intelligence researchers have revealed a computer that they hope will one day be able to program itself. Developers at Google's secretive DeepMind start-up, which it bought for $400 million earlier this year, are attempting to mimic some of the properties of the human brain's short-term working memory. By combining the way ordinary computers work with the way the human brain works, the researchers hope the machine will learn to program itself. I'm sorry Dave, I can't Google that: HAL, the smart computer from Stanley Kubrick's 2001 moved a step closer today as developers at Google's secretive DeepMind start-up revealed they are attempting to mimic some of the properties of the human brain's short-term working memory. Its recent Hummingbird search update was created to make Google'more human' - searches can now understand context, like a human brain, for example.