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Gaugamela

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Tue Nov 30, 2021, 06:53 PM Nov 2021

Pretty sure this is the premiss of every singularity warning.

World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say

With the help of artificial intelligence, the researchers then tested billions of body shapes to make the xenobots more effective at this type of replication. The supercomputer came up with a C-shape that resembled Pac-Man, the 1980s video game. They found it was able to find tiny stem cells in a petri dish, gather hundreds of them inside its mouth, and a few days later the bundle of cells became new xenobots.



Some fun video at the link:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html
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Pretty sure this is the premiss of every singularity warning. (Original Post) Gaugamela Nov 2021 OP
Grey goo here we come! EarlG Nov 2021 #1
xenomorph... Javaman Dec 2021 #2
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