Artificial intelligence expert George Zarkadakis believes robots could have sex with each other to evolve and produce superior offspring and this scary new world could be closer than we might imagine. He predicts that humans could even breed with machines to create new hybrid species. Mr Zarkadakis said robots that are both silicon and carbon based, could have sex at a molecular level to produce offspring – although how this could happen is unclear.
Professor Kevin Warwick from the Institution of Engineering and Technology said that robots are already good at producing new robots, which are often better than themselves. Professor Noel Sharkey said that there might not be any need to look at molecules as robots can be ‘bred’ by swapping software so that the code used to make robots perform certain tasks particularly well, can be combined to create a ‘child’. He believes that robots of the future will be able to print their offspring, a little like a 3D printer, but could assemble them too.
Scientists in Amsterdam have created the world’s first batch of robots that can reproduce and create offspring. The new robots have been programmed with a genome that enables them to communicate with each other, learn, and evolve by creating their own new genomes with new information they have learnt.
Researchers including Google Brain, OpenAI,and DeepMind, are now developing machine-learning systems that can create machine-learning systems.
Researchers from Google Brain were able to design software that created an AI system to take a test that measures how well software can process language. The software did better on the test than software designed by humans.
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