The Search for the God Algorithm:
"All knowledge—past, present, and future—can be derived from data
by a single, universal learning algorithm.
Domingos is not talking about creating “revolutionary” and “disruptive”
new apps for efficiently ordering pizza or rapidly locating purveyors of
craft beer. If his master algorithm is discovered, the hyperbolic
vocabulary of tech-industry cheerleading would actually become
justified. He predicts that this algorithm would a) Cure cancer b)
Eliminate all jobs, freeing everyone to enjoy a life of leisure and
making employment just another vestige of humanity’s primitive past,
and c) Invent everything that can be invented.
Whether this is attainable is an open question."
See:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...algorithm.html