Google's artificial intelligence makes itself smarter on its own!
Artificial intelligence has been about human beings on many fronts. The latest is now that it can make itself even smarter than man managed to do.
It can drive cars, find cancer and win over man in the highly advanced board game Go. And now, artificial intelligence can also create new and better artificial intelligence.
Google recently held its annual I/O conference, featuring new technological breakthroughs and visions for the public.
There, the techie CEO Sundai Pichar told about the progress of Google's artificial intelligence AutoML - and it's fast.
Developing rapidly
The artificial intelligence works in a way that adds new codes and algorithms on top of the original code. It creates a system that can act based on multiple inputs.
But it takes a long time for people to type the codes and algorithms, and so Google has put AutoML at work to write their own layer of code. In this way, new and advanced artificial intelligence is created much faster.
So far, AutoML has developed an artificial intelligence that can recognize images and others who recognize voices.
It has already passed man intellligence
n the first case, the code was as good as Google's human experts had created - in the second case, the code was better.
The codes created by the computer offered surprises: Parts of AutoML's codes were meaningless to the human code experts, and only gave meaning to the computers.
Google's hope is that AutoML can spread artificial intelligence to ordinary people - an easy-to-use base intelligence that can tailor itself to the owner's needs.
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It's very exciting. First we have AI made by people using machine learning, then we have AI made by an AI that writes machine learning code, now we need an AI that makes AI that makes AI code and link them into a circle to create recursion and blow up the universe. The next few years are going to be very interesting for anyone following AI :)
Makes you wonder if it is already too late to tell everyone they have to learn coding if the computers will write their own code by the time they are fully trained to program...
Although you still want humans to pose the right questions for the computer to solve, the number of people needed to fill those jobs will not be many.