Microsoft has created an A.I. that can write its own code

[Nathan]

On 2017-03-10 14:52, Matt Graham wrote:

> The article described code-writing software that solved problems that
> required <= 5 lines of code.  This is fairly trivial stuff[0].
> However, "Microsoft has created a program that writes code to solve
> certain very small problems" is much more boring than "Microsoft has
> created an AI that can write its own code".

How does any of this compare to what has been in the news lately about 
Twitter having roughly 50 million accounts that are actually bots. Can 
we assume these are somewhat sophisticated bots that read in and respond 
with some form of intelligence?

Nathan