[gore3000]

It has already happened. A computer program using the technique described in this article has already designed a new, useful and patented electronic circuit.

Wow! wires and transistors reproducing themselves! That must be some program! Can you send it to me? I could use it to have it make me a new tv, or perhaps a computer or a car?

[js1138]

Keep reading you're only up to post # 14. You won't get the program itself, but you will get links to the circuit and the patent, granted in 2002.