..or at least read this book.
There's a project going on to create robots that can reproduce and evolve...at both the software and hardware level. They will build their own offspring using 3D printing.
The idea is that mimicking evolution will design robots that are much more efficient for their task...the first task being cleaning up legacy waste in nuclear reactors.
The question is:
When does a machine that can evolve and reproduce become life?
And when does it become intelligent life?
The ethics of simply recycling poorly-evolved robots might seem straightforward to start with, but...
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