AI software by Google learns to write AI software

Researchers at Google and several universities recently made key progress in developing artificial intelligence (AI) that is itself able to write AI software, reports MIT Technology Review . In an experiment, AI researchers from Google Brain allowed software to develop the design for a machine learning system to recognize human speech. This software produced better results than software designs for machine learning that had previously been created by people, the researchers write in a scientific paper submitted to a conference. This paper has not yet been subject to peer review – so testing of these results by other researchers still remains to be done. Other research groups have also reported similar progress in recent months in the field of machine learning using artificial neural networks – the most promising technology in artificial intelligence in recent years.