Sebastian Thrun 2: The new generation of computers is programming itself

TED 2017

Sebastian Thrun 2: The new generation of computers is programming itself  (transcript)

Summary 

Recently, we hear the words machine learning often. We would think that it meant that machines could remember all things, humans forgot a lot of things soon, though. Machines don't just forget all things, they aren't tired, but they can't understand our words, and they create nothing.
However, those seem to be wrong. Machine learning seems to have functions and it works.
In this generation, computers are programming itself and deciphering a rule for every contingency step by step. What we do now becomes an example and computers get it and infer own rules.
The speaker said that we can similarly think about how we raise children.  I think that machine learning is still higher level than humans because he tells us that its behavior often surpasses human ability. It can drive cars and find skin cancer correctly more than humans do.
And then, we learned from previous TED talk that the combination of human smarts and machine smarts are important. It makes us stronger.
It was that a weak human player plus a machine plus a better process was superior the most. It could win against a very powerful machine alone and also a strong human plus machine and an inferior process.
It changes the combination that is a smarts human plus a smart machin in the new generation,.
Why can't it say that we are super creative by working with machines?
Our human sides have to change our thoughts that humans will lose to computers, the world “artificial intelligence” is so threatened and the computer is our overlord.
By computers is programming itself, humans, we, humans are capable of more than we doing current jobs.
Words in this story
contingency /noun/ a future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty.
precision /noun/  accuracy
comprehend /verb/  understand, grasp, take in, see
repetitive /adj/ containing or characterized by repetition, especially when unnecessary or tiresome.
decipher /verb/ convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language.