A Very Brief and Critical Discussion on AutoML
  This contribution presents a very brief and critical discussion on automated
machine learning (AutoML), which is categorized here into two classes, referred
to as narrow AutoML and generalized AutoML, respectively. The conclusions
yielded from this discussion can be summarized as follows: (1) most existent
research on AutoML belongs to the class of narrow AutoML; (2) advances in
narrow AutoML are mainly motivated by commercial needs, while any possible
benefit obtained is definitely at a cost of increase in computing burdens;
(3)the concept of generalized AutoML has a strong tie in spirit with artificial
general intelligence (AGI), also called "strong AI", for which obstacles abound
for obtaining pivotal progresses.
