Google Software Engineers say "programming appears to think independently from creators"

Sorry if this has been posted before, just came across this and thought it worth sharing.
Skynet anyone?
Here are a few excerpts from the link below:

“Google no longer understands how its “deep learning” decision-making computer systems have made themselves so good at recognizing things in photos".

What stunned [Google Software Engineer] Quoc V. Le is that the software has learned to pick out features in things like paper shredders that people can’t easily spot

Google researchers can no longer explain exactly how the system has learned to spot certain objects, because the programming appears to think independently from its creators, and its complex cognitive processes are inscrutable. "

[link to algopop.tumblr.com]