Just this year, researchers at Columbia created a self-replicating neural network that can predict its future growth path -- not unlike a human planning their career and learning new skills. Even if complex programming projects will still require humans, there's a chance that database experts and lower-level, AI-related jobs will be phased out. Microsoft and the University of Cambridge recently released an algorithm that could solve simple equations, such as Excel formulas. Uniquely, for such a compact program, it could augment its abilities by using the brute force approach on a smaller scale: trying different chunks of code until it finds the winning solution.