This powerful “master algorithm” is at the heart of work postulated by Pedro Domingos, author of The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World.

For Bayesians, creating the master algorithm boils down to efficiently implementing Bayes's theorem, a mathematical rule for updating our degree of belief in a hypothesis when we see new evidence.

Ray Kurzweil is a famous futurist who's always banked on the coming of the singularity — when artificial intelligence overcomes human intelligence.

In his new book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos covers the growing prominence of machine learning in close but accessible detail.

In a recent publication in Nature, Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG ) (NASDAQ: GOOGL )'s DeepMind artificial intelligence unit detailed the ability of its Q-network (DQN) algorithm to not just learn how ...