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ugh_seriously_
Nope. The singularity is not suddenly here because people are using machine learning for machine learning hyperoptimization. These aren't even new ideas and the fact that they happen to be using neural networks doesn't make it magic.
sprobertson
Fitting username. Shouldn't the title be edited for editorialization?
ugh_seriously_
It should. I should also clarify, I don't mean to take anything away from the authors by saying 'these are not new ideas'. This paper is still a contribution, I only mean that the general idea of AutoML (I'll stretch the typical application and say this is AutoML) is not new.

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sctb
We updated the title from “Neural Networks Designing Neural Networks: Cometh the Singularity?”