Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:39:35 +0000, scott wrote:
>
> >> You know what? Computers that program themselves... Yeah, never
> >> happened.
> >
> > You could argue that neural networks and other machine learning
> > techniques are computers programming themselves...
>
> Actually, it has sort of happened; I read something the other day about
> Watson coming up with optimal coding techniques for coding problems.
> Modifying its own algorithms, given that, ought to be trivial.

so someday perhaps it'll turn into Sherlock, all by itself ;)

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