Artifakal Intelligence #1: “Machines learn by themselves”

Is it possible for a machine to be completely autonomous?

The introductory article of this project is available here.

An important and yet deceptive idea that has been largely conveyed to the public about AI is that it would be able to work “on its own”. Many articles can’t dive into the details and they sum up all the subtle ways machine learning differs from the old software with this simple phrase: “AI learns by itself”.