Google's AI's are going to be building more AI's

Putting your future at your fingertips: read this article and thousands more about emerging technology and it's impact on your life, your business and your society at www.globalfuturist.org. As many companies, large and small will tell you, creating a good artificial intelligence (AI) is difficult, really difficult, and for companies such as Alibaba, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft where AI could literally make or break their futures it's a battle they have to win. And now the team at Google's AI research lab, Google Brain, think they have the answer – get AI's to design and build new AI's, and they're not alone – late last year Facebook also hoped on the same bandwagon and were already ahead of the curve. What could possibly go wrong with that great idea!? If you were one of the people who said "nothing" and "that sounds like a great idea" then you might want to go and stand in the corner with everyone else who said that – and it's a lonely corner.