Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) Stock's New Backbone: Artificial Intelligence

Last week, Martin Abadi, a computer scientist and member of the Google Brain Team at Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL), along with David Andersen, an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, published a research paper that describes how artificial intelligence entities "can learn how to perform forms of encryption and decryption, and also how to apply these operations selectively in order to meet confidentiality goals." In simpler terms, GOOGL created three separate AI entities and instructed two of them to pass secret messages back and forth while the third attempted to intercept and decode them. When the encryption was broken, subsequent messages were secured with even more advanced methods. The truly amazing part of the experiment was that "the networks were not taught anything about encryption before the game began, meaning that the strategies they came up with were entirely original." That also means Alphabet researchers may never know exactly what kind of encryption methods were being used, and they probably won't be able to crack it, either. The GOOGL Brain Team isn't the only AI research team competing to develop the next revolutionary advancement in machine learning and automation.