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Self replicating robots are here – time to panic?

  • Writer: Peter McAllister
    Peter McAllister
  • Dec 3, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: Nov 4, 2024


Self replicating robot

I used the idea of self-replicating nanobots in my novel “The Code. If you AI loses its mind can it take meds?” They were the arms and legs of Gene – the AI at the centre of the book, and they were the way his computational outputs were put into action.


When I wrote that I didn’t know of the 2017 article in Huffpost talking about the second technological singularity – self replicating nanobots, where the author put the date as in the 2050’s.


The first singularity is when there is a machine that is smarter than all humanity (2040's).


So another sci-fi concept has come true. There is a report of an AI (thanks team - whose side are you on anyway) has helped to design a cell sized robot that does just that – creating multi-generational lines of robots that make more robots.


In my novel they were called builder bots (ok – not very imaginative, but you got the idea), the impact was the same – to produce more robots for specific activities.


So is it still 2050’s for the nano version?

 
 
 

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