American tech giant Google's AutoML artificial intelligence engine has long been capable of creating AI solutions without the support of humans - and it's just completed its biggest challenge to date....
Google has released an AI tool capable of replicating itself without human intervention. The technology is called AutoML and not only replicates itself but can create an AI virtual child capable of outsmarting young humans. Its success comes from its ability to create small neural networks to the same level that a human expert would construct a similar network. It is hoped that this tech will bring AI to those that are not necassirly experts. This example of unsupervised machine learning is another step forward for AI, which comes in a year that saw breakthroughs such as Google's AlphaGo AI success at teaching itself how to beat a Go world champion.