The machines are learning, and talking EM360

Machine learning, as many readers will know, is a branch of artificial intelligence. It's essentially a method of programming which gives computers the ability to learn something on their own. So, then, after it's learned to fish, if you ask the computer a question, or ask it for a fish, its answer, or the fish, doesn't have to be in its memory banks – it can go and catch a new fish, or just make one up based on the information about fish it has already acquired. This is like the example of Google's DeepMind algorithm creating entirely new images of cats, people and other images based on the millions of images of cats, people and whatnot it had already seen. The new images the algorithm was creating were not exact replicas of any it had seen, and quite frankly they were terrible, but you get the idea.