Google Artificial Intelligence Builds Better Microchips

As soon as machine learning systems get better at designing other machine learning systems than human experts, the age of Homo sapiens will come to an end. After all, those slightly better systems will build systems that are slightly better still. At least, that's what several people, including Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees, and Elon Musk, think about the potential risk of artificial intelligence and its dominance over humans. There are more ways than one to arrive at superintelligence, but AI is perhaps the most obvious one. Fortunately (?), we don't have an AI-building AI yet.