18th on 21 interesting Facts About Google: Google is developing a computer so smart it can program itself.
Google’s secretive artificial intelligence researchers have revealed a computer that they hope will one day be able to program itself.
Developers at Google’s secretive DeepMind start-up, which it bought for $400 million earlier this year, are attempting to mimic some of the properties of the human brain’s short-term working memory.
By combining the way ordinary computers work with the way the human brain works, the researchers hope the machine will learn to program itself.
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