Computer with human-like learning will program itself - tech - 29 October 2014 - New Scientist

Computer with human-like learning will program itself - tech - 29 October 2014 - New Scientist: "The Neural Turing Machine will combine the best of number-crunching with the human-like adaptability of neural networks – so it can invent its own programs

YOUR smartphone is amazing, but ask it to do something it doesn't have an app for and it just sits there. Without programmers to write apps, computers are useless.

That could soon change. "