What Mitch Randall (see interview link upthread) says is that some of the scientists working on these advanced AI lab projects don't understand what is going on with this self-programming. In other words, it seems to have taken on a life of its own.
Randall says that we have already entered the early stages of the "singularity."
Does this breakthrough consist of programming alone, or does it also involve quantum or neural circuitry or some other advance in hardware?