The question now is: who will program intelligence  – what will they program, and how?
AI machines can program. But that is only the beginning.
This is where we are – Humans used to program machines.
Now machines program themselves.
Soon machines will be creating intelligence.

The path taken: Humans programmed machines → machines learned → machines program themselves → machines creating intelligence.

Intelligent systems are now creating new systems. And soon they will do it all themselves
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It’s a long way from my early days of studying computer science at Sir George Williams University in Montreal. That was about sixty years ago. We worked with languages such as FORTRAN, COBOL and later Pascal. Programs weren’t stored conveniently on a laptop or floating somewhere in the cloud. Instead we used stacks of cards encoded with punched holes in a sort of Morse code. Very prehistoric by today’s standards. AI machines can now generate code – you just need to describe what you want, and it is done.

What happens when machines can modify, replicate or program themselves without human intervention?

That is a subject for another episode, coming soon.

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