Comment by ck2

Someday, maybe 100 years from now, someone is going to figure out a minimal codeset to "bootstrap" machine-learning for a wide range of devices so they basically teach themselves slowly but steadily and then each other

and at first it's going to be absolute amazing, followed by absolutely terrifying

The robots teaching themselves soccer (football) still sticks in my mind - at first they were falling over but after many iterations they had learned to pass the ball sideways and backwards to yet move it forwards to the goal