Artificial intelligence has taught itself to create its own encryption and produced its own universal'language'. A neural network, called DeepCoder, developed by Microsoft and University of Cambridge computer scientists, has learnt how to write programs without a prior knowledge of code. First reported by the New Scientist, the system works by taking lines of code from existing programs and combining them. The system is only able to produce short, five-line, pieces of code at present but this has been enough to test it against real-world problems used by trainee developers. "We have found several problems in real online programming challenges that can be solved with a program in our language," the research paper says.