Computers could soon be our best developers VentureBeat Ai

It's fun to imagine the AI future of home service robots, Amazon Dots in every room, delivery drones and more accurate home medical diagnoses. But while it's natural that flashy consumer applications are capturing the public's imaginations, AI's capacity to transform another area doesn't get as much attention – the way software itself is developed. Imagine what computers could do if they understood themselves. And I'm not talking about far in the future; I'm talking about the very near future, using off-the-shelf technology that already exists today. Until now, machine learning experts have tended to focus on AI applications highly tailored to specific tasks – for example, facial recognition, self-driving cars, speech recognition, even Internet search results.