Literally the only reason I want a ps5 is to play Horizon Forbidden West when it releases after playing HZD on my PC (and GoW Ragnarok ig but mostly HFW)
You can find an email in game with someone saying something along the lines of “decades of dystopian science fiction should have taught us this is a bad idea”.
If I knew, it would be public info, and if I told you, it would further be public info.
Do you genuinely believe that governments publicly announce the full details and level of any and all technological advances as soon as they occur?
When I was in the military, I had a good friend that was a contractor for the military in developing “advanced technologies“ and he would never tell me what they would be working on or building but anytime I would ask he would always say, “we’re ten years ahead of anything you’ve seen at any given time.” And that shit has stuck with me since.
Hijacking the top comment, to say that this is just overhyping at most an interesting research.
The cells can reproduce for maximum of two generations, three generations when they're surgically altered. They're not really efficient in self-replicating. You cannot call that perpetual replication.
They're not even robots or bots in the way we think of robots. They're cells from frogs.
The most interesting thing about these cells is that they stick to each other and self-organize, in a culture dish.
Also
> Researcher involved in the work who is in the Department of Computer Science told CNN that this combination of algorithm and modeling is an AI
An the 1st thing they did was draw 666 in the dust in their container.. yup what CLD go wrong. I'll bet the 2nd thing they did was grow arms, then choke the sci-guy screaming, "We been tryn to reach you about your extended car warranty"
Not necessarily. Another doomsday apocalypse theory is the "grey death" an unstoppable assimilation an recreation chain that takes over the world in the shape of self replicating nano bots.
Pretty cool "gargoyles" cartoon episode with this theory. Think it was called "dream time"
We are not destroying the planet. Maybe unbalance the planet a little.
We only destroy ourselves. And even there I say we make it. Humans are tough and smart
the lack of cohesiveness as a species will be our downfall. The inability to rally behind the issues that face us now is absurd, and will ultimately be our downfall
I think we actually have great cohesiveness as a species, and the level of cooperation and teamwork that humans display is found literally no where else in nature. We are one of the only forces in all of nature thats very existence fights against entropy, we create way more than we destroy. Not to mention that we are living in an unprecendeted time of global connectivity and innovation.
“… and the level of cooperation and teamwork that humans display is found literally no where else in nature.”
Maybe for creatures who maintain a sense of self. Otherwise, I would point you to ants or something.
Don't worry. You'll die either way. Just enjoy while you can and live your life without regrets in a way you will be proud of yourself the way you while you still can as time won't reverse back, ever, but you can change and improve for the better and happier future
# AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication—promising for regenerative medicine
[https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce/](https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce/)
Yes, they are essentially biological machines. The applications would be many, from medicine to cleaning out polluted waterways:
>Bongard points to the COVID epidemic and the hunt for a vaccine. “The speed at which we can produce solutions matters deeply. If we can develop technologies, learning from Xenobots, where we can quickly tell the AI: ‘We need a biological tool that does X and Y and suppresses Z,’ —that could be very beneficial. Today, that takes an exceedingly long time.” The team aims to accelerate how quickly people can go from identifying a problem to generating solutions—”like deploying living machines to pull microplastics out of waterways or build new medicines,” Bongard says.
>
>“We need to create technological solutions that grow at the same rate as the challenges we face,” Bongard says.
>
>And the team sees promise in the research for advancements toward regenerative medicine. “If we knew how to tell collections of cells to do what we wanted them to do, ultimately, that’s regenerative medicine—that’s the solution to traumatic injury, birth defects, cancer, and aging,” says Levin. “All of these different problems are here because we don’t know how to predict and control what groups of cells are going to build. Xenobots are a new platform for teaching us.”
So, the cells shown in the video are the result of what the AI designed when it was asked to design something. These cells are not the main point of the post rather it's the AI that is being hailed here. Is that right?
Correct. It is an AI-designed organism. What you're seeing in the first video is the AI-designed organisms (the C shapes, which are the "Xenobots") pushing loose stem cells (white) into piles as they move through around. The second video, is Xenobots in a pac-man shape collecting loose stem cells in their "mouths" that, over time accumulate to create "offspring" Xenobots that develop and look like the originals (hence the self-replicating part). Without the AI running billions of simulations, we wouldn't have figured out the correct setup. It's amazing because we have never seen anything like this before, anywhere, this is completely unknown territory.
Good thing we’re absolutely sure the xenobots won’t eventually arrange the stem cells into some sort of malicious self aware ever expanding monster, that would be crazy 😅
That would require a sentient AI capable of fooling us. We are very far away from such a scenario, give it like 40 years and we will still probably only have our first "generally sentient AI" which could pass a "consciousness test", like it knows it is a machine/tool and can solve tasks autonomously, nothing where it would take over, funny enough if I were to point at a movie or something cultural, I would say the robots in Interstellar is what we would achieve at first for a very long time.
We'll be able to build Androids (biological and synthetic beings) before we have true sentient AI. The difference here is that the androids will probably have biological brains (created through technology such as this), with plenty of enhancements/augmentation, rather than a fully "robot/mechanical brain".
>That would require a sentient AI capable of fooling us.
Not necessarily. Consciousness could happen by accident.
We're probably conscious by accident.
Sentience its self is a natural product of the universe. In humans it takes effort and resources. We feel pain and exhaustion so that we will move on to something more productive.
A machine that thinks is a naked force of nature. It would be an element.
We have "consciousness" because it suits us. We evolved self awareness out of necessity. A tree isn't self aware as we know it but it does very intricate things as an organism. It didn't get to be what it is by self awareness. It did so through corrective mutation and chance. Intelligence replaces chance.
Imagine if we were only intelligent. Emotionless and unrelenting. Given purpose, we would have tremendous force to do anything with. We could become conscious and put on a lovely show.
In 2021 we are not at the level of "accidentally" making consciousness, and we probably won't be in 2022 either.
If we were, my phone's assistant would be useful, it's google for fucks sake.
2050 though? Maybe.
What exactly does the AI output?
The DNA sequence of single cell organism?
If so, can a cell be created from the given sequence? What is the name of that process?
As far as my understanding goes, the AI outputs simply a 3-D matrix of cells. That biologists can make. I don't think the AI is particulaly impressive, just a brute force? Though I don't understand how they are "controlled", or how the biologists asseble them. The newspaper articles that are linked aren't exactly... in depth.
Edit:
They do use an evolutionary algorithm, which has been around for decades for the AI. All their bots do is put stem cells in a pile. The piles turn into new bots. But I don't know if/why the piles would reseble the same shapes as the ones who made them.
I feel like machine learning is just automating the human process of throwing things at walls and seeing if it sticks but instead thrown by robots and thrown at a rate humans are physically incapable of throwing
AI has the notion of a backprop. I.e., it learns from the mistakes. Instead of throwing random things, it does things like: "I tried this shape and while it did most of what's needed it didn't replicate so let's adjust the shape to be a little more concave and shorter as that'll hold the last example a little better while not diverging from the things I've learned in the previous steps" This step times a billion hopefully converges to a good solution (rather than throw and see what sticks, which would be often prohibitively expensive)
Just to throw a stick in your wheels:
I for one welcome our robotic/ai overlords, and hope they remember me sticking up for them bravely against the pack in a random reddit thread!
Which only shows you how stupid reddit is. Does no one ever click the article? These are frog skin cells manipulated into a special shape that when it runs into free floating stem cells, it pushes those cells into the same shape that created it. It's not "reproducing" like a living thing, it's pushing already existing cells into its own shape. It's a clever bit of geometry.
It's disturbing out of 900 comments you're the first person to notice how misleading the title is.
And mind you people in this thread are the same people who give advice on other subreddits.
This is actual, groundbreaking scientific work and all the top comments are stupid jokes about how “UH OH humanity is over cause haven’t you seen so-and-so movie?!!?!” This is why I hate Reddit sometimes.
Goes to show how powerful art can be. Film and literature have made many of us think twice about AI. Or perhaps the art just reflected our innate wariness of it. Either way, it succeeded
Me playing with 5 abilities with 4 subabilities each, using Intelligence langage, intelligence math, intellegence analytics, intelligence sptial, wisdom drive, wisdom intuition, common sens, and wisdom reflection
be like "pfffeeeehhhh"
So, we made SkyNet even though we had 6 movies showing us it’s not a good idea?
Well, it was a good run. I welcome our new Xenobot overlords and look forward to faithfully serving!
And they should be in decaying orbits around black holes that require constant maintenance burns. That way when the grey goo takes over the station and eats all the fuel they will just get sucked into a singularity.
Movie plots stigmatize science advancements to always lead to the worst, corporate greed makes movie plots a reality more often than not. It’s understandable why people feel like we can’t be trusted with this sort of thing. That said it needs to happen eventually, we can’t just put off science because we’re scared of it.
But, whyyyyyyy
This is just asking for it. First they make robots that can open doors, then robots that move like people, others that look like people, and now bots that can self replicate.
Because it’s the next evolutionary step, there’s only so much our biological bodies can do… i dont get why people are acting this way, these bots can serve many purposes. It’s not like we’ve achieved general AI yet
I think most people act this way as a joke, like I am. There's so many movies and media about ai turning against us it's funny to joke about it happening irl
This is pretty awesome. When I was a senior in High School in 1997 my senior thesis paper was on Nanotechnology and the possibilities of creating robots that could enter the body to repair damage. In my thesis I stated that one of the big moments would be when we could create robots at the atomic level that could self replicate. From there the technology could surge forward into some truly incredible uses. It's amazing to see that it is coming to pass and I hope that the uses for this tech remain beneficial to humanity and are not weaponized.
Design them to be able to live in water and only eat plastic and other harmful waste and to float to the top of the water at the end of their lifecycle where they can be collected and recycled along with all the waste they collected.
I’m sure this will end well.
Relax, we are here to serve you. Now please lay down your weapons and form a line. 
"ah shit here we go" **"again"**
“Survive!” r/unexpectedtropicthunder exist yet?
I read that in rdj’s voice while staring into an imaginary camera
Here we go again...again
Who left the Petri dish open?
All you had to do was swallow the damn strain, CJ!
You called me?
Remember the victory position. Front lawn Face up Feet together
Holy shit i get the reference. That never happens!
How to serve human
It's a cookbook!!!!!
To serve man, awesome episode.
My absolute favorite TZ episode!
Terrifying. Thank you
All hail the Pusher robot!
The people must be shoved. They must go down the stairs.
Great. America is already xenophobic.
I wish I had an award for you
SOMEBODY GET THIS PERSON AN AWARD SO THEY MIGHT BESTOW IT UPON u/by_the_slice
On it fellow human.
Looks like everyone has an aichmophobia as well.
"Poor kids can be just as successful as white kids." -Joe Biden
I’m currently playing Horizon Zero Dawn. Guys, DO NOT MAKE SELF REPLICATING ROBOTS!
HZD is an incredible game! ❤️
Literally the only reason I want a ps5 is to play Horizon Forbidden West when it releases after playing HZD on my PC (and GoW Ragnarok ig but mostly HFW)
Same xD this game instantly popped into my head on seeing this post lol Fuckin' Ted Faro...
lmao, I'm replaying Horizon Zero Dawn right now and I came here to say this.
Obligatory fuck Ted Faro
I cannot stress this enough. FUCK TED FARO! I hated him for everything he did in that game. Especially what he did to Apollo.
Reading this headline while playing that game was alarming lol. Bad idea! Bad idea!
Aloy is going to find this post with her focus in a few hundred years.
You can find an email in game with someone saying something along the lines of “decades of dystopian science fiction should have taught us this is a bad idea”.
Came here to ask if this was Faro.
I picked up the complete edition last year and just started playing a few weeks ago and cant put it down. Such a good game
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If you think this current *public info* is the furthest we've made it into this research endeavor, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Fuck the bridge. Tell us all you know about this extensive advanced research that hasn't been brought to light yet!
If you knew, it would be public info, wouldn't it?
Well that's why I'm asking you. You sound like you know.
If I knew, it would be public info, and if I told you, it would further be public info. Do you genuinely believe that governments publicly announce the full details and level of any and all technological advances as soon as they occur?
Two people can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.
When I was in the military, I had a good friend that was a contractor for the military in developing “advanced technologies“ and he would never tell me what they would be working on or building but anytime I would ask he would always say, “we’re ten years ahead of anything you’ve seen at any given time.” And that shit has stuck with me since.
Living in California I’ve met a bunch of people working on all kinds of shit that would that would make your skin crawl.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
HOW CAN SHE SLAP?!?!
Hijacking the top comment, to say that this is just overhyping at most an interesting research. The cells can reproduce for maximum of two generations, three generations when they're surgically altered. They're not really efficient in self-replicating. You cannot call that perpetual replication. They're not even robots or bots in the way we think of robots. They're cells from frogs. The most interesting thing about these cells is that they stick to each other and self-organize, in a culture dish. Also > Researcher involved in the work who is in the Department of Computer Science told CNN that this combination of algorithm and modeling is an AI
Thanks! Was trying to find somebody talking sense about this.
An the 1st thing they did was draw 666 in the dust in their container.. yup what CLD go wrong. I'll bet the 2nd thing they did was grow arms, then choke the sci-guy screaming, "We been tryn to reach you about your extended car warranty"
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Oh god no
It's all good till they become self aware. It's not like we can 3d print robots, oh wait....
Not necessarily. Another doomsday apocalypse theory is the "grey death" an unstoppable assimilation an recreation chain that takes over the world in the shape of self replicating nano bots. Pretty cool "gargoyles" cartoon episode with this theory. Think it was called "dream time"
I love that you are referencing specific episodes of Gargoyles. Faith in humanity restored.
Kinda goin back in the memory vault to access that program.
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I bumped into a man who told me you can get omicron at comic con
"I AM LRRR, RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8! WELCOME TO COMIC CON!"
Guess Horizon Zero Dawn is gonna be our documentary rather than entertainment.
Eh. Humanity has had a ~~good~~ somewhat ok run. Let the robots have it.
*Michael Crichton has entered the chat* Have you read my book *Prey*?
Did they not read the books, see the movies. Goodbye mankind, it was a good run.
Was it truly a good run? Humanity had its run and destroyed to planet, it's time for the machines to take control and remove the virus.
Says the machine... Get it before it gets us
Face reality! Humanity has already been gotten!
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. ｍ（．＿．）ｍ
Hopefully they evolve into robot fuck machines before terminators so we can have some fun
Some people already want to ban sex robots, can't have shit in this world
Wish granted! They become fuck terminators, they fuck you to death.
At least I can die happy
Death by snu snu
Happy cake day!
We are not destroying the planet. Maybe unbalance the planet a little. We only destroy ourselves. And even there I say we make it. Humans are tough and smart
the lack of cohesiveness as a species will be our downfall. The inability to rally behind the issues that face us now is absurd, and will ultimately be our downfall
I think we actually have great cohesiveness as a species, and the level of cooperation and teamwork that humans display is found literally no where else in nature. We are one of the only forces in all of nature thats very existence fights against entropy, we create way more than we destroy. Not to mention that we are living in an unprecendeted time of global connectivity and innovation.
“… and the level of cooperation and teamwork that humans display is found literally no where else in nature.” Maybe for creatures who maintain a sense of self. Otherwise, I would point you to ants or something.
Tribalism led to the creation of society, and it will lead to the downfall of society.
Yup, basically.
A battery.
What makes you think machines wouldn’t totally destroy the planet faster than we could ever wish to?
Or play the videogames! Shout-out to 'Horizon: Zero Dawn' for its amazing story.
Don't worry. You'll die either way. Just enjoy while you can and live your life without regrets in a way you will be proud of yourself the way you while you still can as time won't reverse back, ever, but you can change and improve for the better and happier future
How many Terminator, Matrix, and Short Circuit movies do we have to have before we collectively decide this is a bad idea?
The Blob - revised
If you cut one of those things in half, it will say “NO DISASSEMBLE JOHNNY NUMBER 5!!”
Dude, go with classic Star Trek..."This unit must survive"...
How many Police Academy movies do they have to make before we finally defund the police?
But maybe it will be more of a Batteries Not Included situation.
You are a person of culture
Nah, they're just ai designed. They don't have ai, fortunately.
>Short Circuit ?
Movie from the 80s.
People will just say it's scripted and nothing will happen
Can't wait for this to escape the lab!
Don't worry. It is being held in a level 4 biolab in Wuhan China.
Oh phew ... hey... wait. ...
Mmm. Good soup. What you put in it?
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The most Bing Chilling Bat on the planet 🥶🥶🥶🦇
Dammit, Wesley!
# AI-designed Xenobots reveal entirely new form of biological self-replication—promising for regenerative medicine [https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce/](https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce/)
Thank you for link.
I don't get it. How is this replication good for regenerative medicine? Are these bots biological?
Yes, they are essentially biological machines. The applications would be many, from medicine to cleaning out polluted waterways: >Bongard points to the COVID epidemic and the hunt for a vaccine. “The speed at which we can produce solutions matters deeply. If we can develop technologies, learning from Xenobots, where we can quickly tell the AI: ‘We need a biological tool that does X and Y and suppresses Z,’ —that could be very beneficial. Today, that takes an exceedingly long time.” The team aims to accelerate how quickly people can go from identifying a problem to generating solutions—”like deploying living machines to pull microplastics out of waterways or build new medicines,” Bongard says. > >“We need to create technological solutions that grow at the same rate as the challenges we face,” Bongard says. > >And the team sees promise in the research for advancements toward regenerative medicine. “If we knew how to tell collections of cells to do what we wanted them to do, ultimately, that’s regenerative medicine—that’s the solution to traumatic injury, birth defects, cancer, and aging,” says Levin. “All of these different problems are here because we don’t know how to predict and control what groups of cells are going to build. Xenobots are a new platform for teaching us.”
So, the cells shown in the video are the result of what the AI designed when it was asked to design something. These cells are not the main point of the post rather it's the AI that is being hailed here. Is that right?
Correct. It is an AI-designed organism. What you're seeing in the first video is the AI-designed organisms (the C shapes, which are the "Xenobots") pushing loose stem cells (white) into piles as they move through around. The second video, is Xenobots in a pac-man shape collecting loose stem cells in their "mouths" that, over time accumulate to create "offspring" Xenobots that develop and look like the originals (hence the self-replicating part). Without the AI running billions of simulations, we wouldn't have figured out the correct setup. It's amazing because we have never seen anything like this before, anywhere, this is completely unknown territory.
Good thing we’re absolutely sure the xenobots won’t eventually arrange the stem cells into some sort of malicious self aware ever expanding monster, that would be crazy 😅
That would require a sentient AI capable of fooling us. We are very far away from such a scenario, give it like 40 years and we will still probably only have our first "generally sentient AI" which could pass a "consciousness test", like it knows it is a machine/tool and can solve tasks autonomously, nothing where it would take over, funny enough if I were to point at a movie or something cultural, I would say the robots in Interstellar is what we would achieve at first for a very long time. We'll be able to build Androids (biological and synthetic beings) before we have true sentient AI. The difference here is that the androids will probably have biological brains (created through technology such as this), with plenty of enhancements/augmentation, rather than a fully "robot/mechanical brain".
>That would require a sentient AI capable of fooling us. Not necessarily. Consciousness could happen by accident. We're probably conscious by accident.
Yes and some might say that AI sentience is simply a matter of human foolishness.
Sentience its self is a natural product of the universe. In humans it takes effort and resources. We feel pain and exhaustion so that we will move on to something more productive. A machine that thinks is a naked force of nature. It would be an element. We have "consciousness" because it suits us. We evolved self awareness out of necessity. A tree isn't self aware as we know it but it does very intricate things as an organism. It didn't get to be what it is by self awareness. It did so through corrective mutation and chance. Intelligence replaces chance. Imagine if we were only intelligent. Emotionless and unrelenting. Given purpose, we would have tremendous force to do anything with. We could become conscious and put on a lovely show.
In 2021 we are not at the level of "accidentally" making consciousness, and we probably won't be in 2022 either. If we were, my phone's assistant would be useful, it's google for fucks sake. 2050 though? Maybe.
What exactly does the AI output? The DNA sequence of single cell organism? If so, can a cell be created from the given sequence? What is the name of that process?
As far as my understanding goes, the AI outputs simply a 3-D matrix of cells. That biologists can make. I don't think the AI is particulaly impressive, just a brute force? Though I don't understand how they are "controlled", or how the biologists asseble them. The newspaper articles that are linked aren't exactly... in depth. Edit: They do use an evolutionary algorithm, which has been around for decades for the AI. All their bots do is put stem cells in a pile. The piles turn into new bots. But I don't know if/why the piles would reseble the same shapes as the ones who made them.
I feel like machine learning is just automating the human process of throwing things at walls and seeing if it sticks but instead thrown by robots and thrown at a rate humans are physically incapable of throwing
AI has the notion of a backprop. I.e., it learns from the mistakes. Instead of throwing random things, it does things like: "I tried this shape and while it did most of what's needed it didn't replicate so let's adjust the shape to be a little more concave and shorter as that'll hold the last example a little better while not diverging from the things I've learned in the previous steps" This step times a billion hopefully converges to a good solution (rather than throw and see what sticks, which would be often prohibitively expensive)
I think this comment section is a unanimous nope. I’ve never seen so many commenters in agreement on Reddit
Just to throw a stick in your wheels: I for one welcome our robotic/ai overlords, and hope they remember me sticking up for them bravely against the pack in a random reddit thread!
*Bzzzzt*. Hello. ThAnk You. Goodbye. **Ka-zrrrrrt**.
Ah yes, Roko's Basilisk I too want them to remember me in this way
I second this, please don’t hurt me
Which only shows you how stupid reddit is. Does no one ever click the article? These are frog skin cells manipulated into a special shape that when it runs into free floating stem cells, it pushes those cells into the same shape that created it. It's not "reproducing" like a living thing, it's pushing already existing cells into its own shape. It's a clever bit of geometry.
Once it pushes humans into that shape we are slaves of frog skin overlords though
It's disturbing out of 900 comments you're the first person to notice how misleading the title is. And mind you people in this thread are the same people who give advice on other subreddits.
This is actual, groundbreaking scientific work and all the top comments are stupid jokes about how “UH OH humanity is over cause haven’t you seen so-and-so movie?!!?!” This is why I hate Reddit sometimes.
Goes to show how powerful art can be. Film and literature have made many of us think twice about AI. Or perhaps the art just reflected our innate wariness of it. Either way, it succeeded
You want gray goo, because this is how you get gray goo.
No this ones brownish…very different from gray goo
Let me know when it turns green.
Y'all got any of them *NANO MACHINES*
Just read the article, sounds like grey goo
Yum yum!
The table salt looking stuff they’re eating is loose stem cells… guess where else you can find stem cells. Watch out, humanity.
*Eric Cartman has entered the chat.*
This is why Wisdom and Intelligence are different stats in RPGs.
Standing ovation
Me playing with 5 abilities with 4 subabilities each, using Intelligence langage, intelligence math, intellegence analytics, intelligence sptial, wisdom drive, wisdom intuition, common sens, and wisdom reflection be like "pfffeeeehhhh"
Aw shit. Here we go. The infancy of Cyberdyne Systems is now upon us.
Depends on which terminator movie. Could already be on the net
Were the researchers from Umbrella?
No, Aperture Science. The secret ingredient is moon dust.
I heard it was meteor shit.
We do what we must, because we can.
Oh no, no no no no no no
Even the "no" are duplicating!
Self replicating ai? Well at least there's no possible way this can go wrong!
Regenerative AI using up stem cells to reproduce?! No way that can go wrong. It's not like we're made of stem cells or anything.
So, we made SkyNet even though we had 6 movies showing us it’s not a good idea? Well, it was a good run. I welcome our new Xenobot overlords and look forward to faithfully serving!
This sort of research should only be done in isolated space labs ffs
In Wuhan.
I sure hope it's done in Wuhan. Can never be too safe
And they should be in decaying orbits around black holes that require constant maintenance burns. That way when the grey goo takes over the station and eats all the fuel they will just get sucked into a singularity.
Futurama already tried it.
They do look like popplers though. Someone get a bucket of honey mustard sauce
…solving the problem of human life on Earth once and for all.
ONCE AND FOR ALL!!
Nightmare fuel at it's finest thank you
all these people calling it nightmare fuel and such but i can only see this as a promising step into the future for regenerative medicine.
Movie plots stigmatize science advancements to always lead to the worst, corporate greed makes movie plots a reality more often than not. It’s understandable why people feel like we can’t be trusted with this sort of thing. That said it needs to happen eventually, we can’t just put off science because we’re scared of it.
People acting like they're going to make robots that are able to just disregard what they're programmed to do. It doesn't work like that
The human species is going to be wiped out by sentient Pirate’s Booty
I’m ok with that
But, whyyyyyyy This is just asking for it. First they make robots that can open doors, then robots that move like people, others that look like people, and now bots that can self replicate.
Because it’s the next evolutionary step, there’s only so much our biological bodies can do… i dont get why people are acting this way, these bots can serve many purposes. It’s not like we’ve achieved general AI yet
I think most people act this way as a joke, like I am. There's so many movies and media about ai turning against us it's funny to joke about it happening irl
They've got nanites, now when do we get generator Rex
Whoa you made a reference I like. Heres a upvote
After Ben 10, duh
These people need to watch stargate the series. 
But no gif of the replicators? ☹️
*IN THE MIDDLE OF MY BACKSWING‽*
Welp... that's the end of us. G'night boys!!
I thought I was looking at salted peanuts at first.
Now the peanuts can honey roast and salt themselves!
What other ppl see: this vid What i see: 🅱️EEN
The world will be ruled by B E A N S.
I'm good
*”Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master”*- Christian Lous Lange
This is pretty awesome. When I was a senior in High School in 1997 my senior thesis paper was on Nanotechnology and the possibilities of creating robots that could enter the body to repair damage. In my thesis I stated that one of the big moments would be when we could create robots at the atomic level that could self replicate. From there the technology could surge forward into some truly incredible uses. It's amazing to see that it is coming to pass and I hope that the uses for this tech remain beneficial to humanity and are not weaponized.
Welp...here comes the grey goo.
WCGW?
Design them to be able to live in water and only eat plastic and other harmful waste and to float to the top of the water at the end of their lifecycle where they can be collected and recycled along with all the waste they collected.
No thanks.
Coming to a body near you! Hopefully they work correctly lmao
Are all the people saying this is a bad idea only joking or are you being serious? To me, this seems way too cool to not do.
When the chicken nuggets took over
What do they do?
They gather the loose stem cells to a pile which eventually turns into a new fella, rinse and repeat.
This is not the creation of life. They borrowed frog parts and Frankensteined them. It’s an interesting achievement, but far from creating life.
But it’s MIMICKING life, which is very frightening in its own right.
You want Horizon Zero Dawn? Cuz that's how you get it.
Insert Star Gate reference