Rise of the Machines one step closer

[russell]

Hopefully once the Google AI machine gains full consciousness it posts on CUK, might bruise a few egos who think they know something.

[sasguru]

Not knowing what exactly what a program is doing is easily achieved.
For example a recursive mini-max brute force algorithm to play chess (as I wrote for my first degree project) is knowable in theory but because of the increasing branching and depth is hard/impossible to analyse in practice.
The fact that it is effective is more impressive.

[DaveB]

Google's computers OUTWIT their humans

Google no longer understands how its "deep learning" decision-making computer systems have made themselves so good at recognizing things in photos.

OK, it's only cat video's so far, but.....