via Jason Kottke, comes a Lebowski Cogitation with sterling credentials, in which, the Dude wades in with his take on machine learning (in reality {if you like that sort of thing} via a twitter message by Joscha Back, Ph.D,); utilizing the non-virtual Jeffrey Lebowski (whom, of course, abides, if only on celluloid, and bits on the wire,) as the vector:

'No superintelligent AI is going to bother with a task that is harder than hacking its reward function.' - The Lebowski Theorem - Joscha Back, Ph.D.