# Professor Vasant Dhar is interviewed about the evolution of machine learning

1 Faculty News May 15, 2017 ![Crain's New York logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031171.jpg?itok=74z5O7mn)>

Excerpt from [Crain's New York](http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170515/TECHNOLOGY/170519951/robots-are-coming-for-white-collar-workers-jobs) -- "'Previously these systems had to be programmed, and they did one task and they did what they were programmed to do,' [Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar) explained. 'Now you've got machines that are capable of learning on their own. They can learn how to learn, and therefore they can displace humans in pretty large numbers.'"

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