{"id":401935,"date":"2019-03-30T05:13:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T04:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-scientists-begin-teaching-ai-robots-to-evolve-reproduce\/"},"modified":"2019-03-30T05:13:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T04:13:30","slug":"prison-planet-com-scientists-begin-teaching-ai-robots-to-evolve-reproduce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-scientists-begin-teaching-ai-robots-to-evolve-reproduce\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Scientists Begin Teaching AI Robots To Evolve & Reproduce"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mac Slavo<\/strong>
SHTFplan.com<\/a>
March 29, 2019<\/p>\n

Evolutionary roboticists have decided to begin teaching artificial intelligence powered robots to evolve and reproduce.\u00a0 Why should humans go to the trouble of building more robots when a robot could do it instead?<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Futurism,<\/em><\/a> this is known as\u00a0high-tech Darwinism.<\/a>\u00a0The researchers\u2019 ultimate goal is to design artificial intelligence and robots that can analyze their own source code and mate\u00a0with others by combining bits and pieces of their code with that of other robots. This would to create \u201coffspring,\u201d much like organic life, Futurism reported.\u00a0 But it isn\u2019t actually anything like organic life, actually. But evolutionary roboticists\u00a0who have this new goal have high-tech Darwinism to the extreme<\/a>. Apparently, just like biological life evolves to fill ecological niches, these robots\u2019\u00a0offspring might be better adapted to\u00a0their environments that their architects specifically built them for.<\/p>\n

An interesting future awaits once high-tech Darwinism becomes successful. And\u00a0Wired<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported that some scientists<\/a>\u00a0are well on their way to making this technology a reality.<\/p>\n

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Computer scientists at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam built a simplified system that shows how future robots might swap and combine their \u201cgenetic\u201d information.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Their recent research,\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0in the journal\u00a0Nature Machine Intelligence<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and which\u00a0involved programming two parent robots to\u00a0code a new \u201coffspring,\u201d\u00a0found that the resulting\u00a0offspring\u00a0contain a mixture of the parents\u2019 code as well as some modules that seemed to have mutated or been blended on its own. \u2013Futurism<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

David Howard, one of the scientists on the project, told\u00a0Wired<\/em><\/a> that there\u2019s a positive spin to all of this.\u00a0\u201cIt gives you a lot of diversity, and it gives you the power to explore areas of a design space that you wouldn\u2019t normally go into.\u201d But others see this as a way to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mac SlavoSHTFplan.comMarch 29, 2019 Evolutionary roboticists have decided to begin teaching artificial intelligence powered robots to evolve and reproduce.\u00a0 Why should humans go to the trouble of building more robots when a robot could do it instead? According to Futurism, this is known as\u00a0high-tech Darwinism.\u00a0The researchers\u2019 ultimate goal is to design artificial intelligence and robots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}