Google wants robots to generate their own code

There are countless big problems left to solve in the world of automation, and robotic learning sits somewhere near the top. While it's true that humans have gotten pretty good at programming systems for specific tasks, there's a big, open-ended question of: and then what? New research demonstrated at Google's AI event in New York City this morning proposes the notion of letting robotic systems effectively write their own code. The concept is designed to save human developers the hassle of having to go in and reprogram things as new information arises. The company notes that existing research and trained models can be effective in implementing the concept.