The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

by Pedro Domingos

The Master Algorithm is to machine learning what the Standard Model is to particle physics or the Central Dogma to molecular biology: a unified theory that makes sense of everything we know to date, and lays the foundation for decades or centuries of future progress.

Scientists make theories, and engineers make devices. Computer scientists make algorithms, which are both theories and devices.

We’ll focus on what we can understand, as we always have, and call the rest random (or divine).