Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like Dogs

Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box. You could analyze a subject’s behavior—ring bell, dog salivates—but thoughts, memories, emotions? That stuff was obscure and inscrutable, beyond the reach of science.

from My Pocket http://www.wired.com/2016/05/the-end-of-code/