GOOGLE'S NEW COMPUTER WITH HUMAN-LIKE LEARNING ABILITIES WILL PROGRAM ITSELF (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Thursday, October 30, 2014, 12:20

In college, it wasn’t rare to hear a verbal battle regarding artificial intelligence erupt between my friends studying neuroscience and my friends studying computer science.

One rather outrageous fellow would mention the possibility of a computer takeover, and off they went. The neuroscience-savvy would awe at the potential of such hybrid technology as the CS majors argued we have nothing to fear, as computers will always need a programmer to tell them what to do.

Today’s news brings us to the Neural Turing Machine, a computer that will combine the way ordinary computers work with the way the human brain learns, enabling it to actually program itself. Perhaps my CS friends should reevaluate their position?

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