can robots program themself? – Machine Learning Zone

Question: can robots program themself?
- Keywords:
  program,
  robot
Asked by xabbeykinson to Yee Whye on 21 Nov 2019.
- Yee Whye Teh answered on 21 Nov 2019:
  
  In a sense machine learning is about robots or computers programming themselves, by learning from data. So far they can’t programme themselves with arbitrarily complex programmes though, just simple one predetermined by us humans.