Google's CEO is excited about seeing AI take over some work of his AI experts

Machine-learning experts are in short supply as companies in many industries rush to take advantage of recent strides in the power of artificial intelligence. Google's CEO says one solution to the skills shortage is to have machine-learning software take over some of the work of creating machine-learning software. At Google's annual developer conference today, Pichai introduced a project called AutoML coming out of the company's Google Brain artificial intelligence research group. Researchers there have shown that their learning algorithms can automate one of the trickiest parts of the job of designing machine-learning software to take on a particular task. In some cases, their automated system came up with designs that rivals or beats the best work of human machine-learning experts.