Seeking: Building AI that Builds AI

Building AI is hard work,  have been working on it for years.  Even if we are attempting to just improve relatively common cognitive business tasks.  Forgetting for now hoping to build complete 'brains'.   So can it be automated?   I ask further.  How should we look at the combination of supervised versus unsupervised training of such systems?  How should  we address the maintenance of such systems as their context evolves?   All big challenges.  In Wired, a look at how Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others are are looking  at this challenge to automation