Computers will outperform doctors at diagnosing illnesses, says government technology adviser

In 2014, the government brought in a new curriculum, which included coding lessons for children. But Prof Susskind said that the development of new, "self-coding" systems meant that such lessons were obsolete. He added: "I belong to the school of thought who don't believe it's a particularly great use of people's time and energy to code. Our thesis is that the next generation of systems will be writing themselves. Automatic code generation is already very common. "Low-level code generation is actually a great intellectual exercise, it's a bit like studying logic, but I don't believe that people learning to code in school will find in seven or eight years that they'll be employable for that reason alone.