Facebooks AI's are building more AI's

Facebook have kick started a trend of AI's building more AI's and it's only going to accelerate Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are taking over the internet. DNNs, unlike their more basic pattern matching Machine Learning cousins are able to learn and replicate human like tasks by analysing vast amounts of digital data and these artificially intelligent systems are injecting online services with a power that just wasn't viable in years past. They're identifying faces in photos, powering search, pulling meaning from videos, applying meaning to language and translating complex conversations from one language to another. But what's less discussed is how the giants of the Internet go about building these rather remarkable engines of AI. Companies like Google and Facebook pay top dollar for some really smart people – only a few hundred souls on Earth have the talent and the training needed to really push the boundaries of Deep Learning and paying for these top minds is a lot like paying for an NFL quarterback but more expensive – Google reportedly bought DeepMind for $600 million not for it's technology but for its twelve strong team of researchers.