The term self-taught in the article doesn't really mean self-taught the way we use it for people. For the machines, it is cloned instances of the same program (

The term self-taught in the article doesn't really mean self-taught the way we use it for people. For the machines, it is cloned instances of the same program (hence objective) working adversarially , perhaps with different initializations. Humans, or any other biological intelligence, learn adversarially and cooperatively with other entities in the world that are very different than they are. Our training data set includes not only our experiences, but those of others. We also have a trainable objective, which while rooted in instinct, is very influenced by the information systems we interact with. I wonder if we'd have more success with AI by allowing the objective itself to be learned after setting a reasonable initial bias.