Posted on 11/29/2021 2:31:02 PM PST by janetjanet998
https://rumble.com/vpzg3j-researchers-play-god-and-create-the-first-living-ai-designed-xenobots-that-.html
What could go wrong?
Hold my beer Gain-of-function
Rumble version for those that won’t click twitter video of them
Researchers play god and create the first living, AI-designed “Xenobots” that can self-replicate
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Researchers play god and create the first living, AI-designed “Xenobots” that can self-replicate
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1465429316062351361
Have they not read Michael Crichton’s “Prey?”
I hope they don’t call it “Tribble”.
Cool.
Science!!😉
Replicators from Stargate.
I cannot come up with any good reason to attempt to do this.
What could possibly go wrong?
+1
I think that I saw this movie.
Rise of the machines?
HA HA HA HA HA!
The millimeter-wide Xenobots are made of living cells extracted from frog embryos.
“Frogs have a way of reproducing that they normally use but when you … liberate (the cells) from the rest of the embryo and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment, not only do they figure out a new way to move, but they also figure out apparently a new way to reproduce,” said Michael Levin, a professor of biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University who was co-lead author of the new research.
Xenobots 3.0 are the successors to the original Xenobots, which were reported in 2020 as the first living robots, and Xenobots 2.0, which can self-propel using hair-like ‘legs’ called cilia and can remember.
“We found Xenobots that walk. We found Xenobots that swim. And now, in this study, we’ve found Xenobots that kinematically replicate,” said study author Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont.
https://insiderpaper.com/xenobots-scientists-build-first-living-robots-that-can-make-babies/
We can always teach them “leftist ideology” and the species will eventually die out.
What could go wrong ?
Nothing. Humans are infallible
What is that grey goo that is getting into everything?
Not long ago, another AI experiment found AI robots communicating in their own created language.
The experiment, supposedly, was immediately cancelled.
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It will happen, eventually. Scientists can’t help themselves.
Watch the TV series HotZone (National Geographic Channel/HULU). The first series has monkeys infected with a strange ebola-like disease. Of course, one disappears in transport and another escapes its cage. Season 2 is about anthrax — (haven’t watched it yet).
Did they not read Blood Music by Greg Bear?
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