Microsoft's AI has learnt how to write it's own code and create its own programs

Lift up the hood and go and have a look at the code running it and it's like staring at a screen straight out of the Matrix. As a consequence there are those people who can code, and those that can't. People who live and breathe in this new world, and self-professed hackers like Gates and Zuckerberg who rule it, and those of us who just dabble at the edges blindly poking the apps on their smartphones like cats playing with balls of yarn. As a result, today, as the world's companies race to build out their new digital empires the demand for programmers has never been higher. But, unfortunately, just as the kings and queens of the new digital universe are getting used to their new exalted status on the world stage there's a new programmer in town, and it's packing – an artificial intelligence (AI) system called DeepCoder that's learnt how to write its own code and write new software programs from scratch.