Alan, what is your view of deep/machine learning as an approach to programming? The Deepmind Atari player is only 1500 lines of code, because the system learns

Alan, what is your view of deep/machine learning as an approach to programming? The Deepmind Atari player is only 1500 lines of code, because the system learns most of the the if/thens. Software is eating the world, but will learning (eventually) eat the software?