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Cornell scientists create ‘living’
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Okay, In My Humble Opinion, what these Scientist have created is just Dangerous and Wrong!
Quote:Cornell scientists create ‘living’ machines that eat, grow, and evolve
tinyhuh
Quote:The field of robotics is going through a renaissance thanks to advances in machine learning and sensor technology. Each generation of robot is engineered with greater mechanical complexity and smarter operating software than the last.
But what if, instead of painstakingly designing and engineering a robot, you could just tear open a packet of primordial soup, toss it in the microwave on high for two minutes, and then grow your own ‘lifelike’ robot?

Now you know there will be a group of Progressive Liberals out there that will wanting to give these robots Human Rights and probably allow them to Vote.


Quote:Scientists from Cornell University have successfully constructed DNA-based machines with incredibly life-like capabilities. These human-engineered organic machines are capable of locomotion, consuming resources for energy, growing and decaying, and evolving. Eventually they die.

That sure sounds a lot like life, but Dan Luo, professor of biological and environmental engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell, who worked on the research, says otherwise. He told The Stanford Chronicle:
Quote:We are introducing a brand-new, lifelike material concept powered by its very own artificial metabolism. We are not making something that’s alive, but we are creating materials that are much more lifelike than have ever been seen before.
Just how lifelike? According to the research they’re on par with biologically complex organisms such as mold:
Quote:Here, we report a bottom-up construction of dynamic biomaterials powered by artificial metabolism, representing a combination of irreversible biosynthesis and dissipative assembly processes. An emergent locomotion behavior resembling a slime mold was programmed with this material by using an abstract design model similar to mechanical systems.
And the racing part is no joke, the paper goes on to state:
Quote:An emergent racing behavior of two locomotive bodies was achieved by expanding the program. Other applications, including pathogen detection and hybrid nanomaterials, illustrated further potential use of this material. Dynamic biomaterials powered by artificial metabolism could provide a previously unexplored route to realize “artificial” biological systems with regenerating and self-sustaining characteristics.
Basically, the Cornell team grew their own robots using a DNA-based bio-material, observed them metabolizing resources for energy, watched as they decayed and grew, and then programmed them to race against each other.

We would have made them compete in a karaoke competition, but Cornell’s application is also impressive.

As unbelievable as it sounds, the team is actually just getting started. Lead author on the team’s paper, Shogo Hamada, told The Stanford Chronicle that “ultimately, the system may lead to lifelike self-reproducing machines.”
minusculewtf  Self-Reproducing Machines!!!  tinywhat

They say that this new life like robot or machine ages and dies. Really!? What if it doesn't? What if it decide Humans are an Insect or a Nuisance?
Of-course this new life force would not move against it Creator,,, No never!  tinysure 
There is a video on the Source page.
Once A Rogue, Always A Rogue!
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I have for a long time now been worried about Von Neumann machines, because once they are started they reproduce and improve themselves without any help from humans. What if the machines deem human flesh the best for there system. People need to stop and think about what they are doing
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(04-20-2019, 07:03 PM)guohua Wrote: They say that this new life like robot or machine ages and dies. Really!?
What if it doesn't? What if it decide Humans are an Insect or a Nuisance?

That's the problem with artificial intelligence, any decision-making doesn't involve morals, optimism,
regret and doubts based on unknown variables. It just does it!
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe. 
#4
After a few years of being exposed to 5G it won't matter.  Actually, it may be hard to tell who is the human and who is the robot.
We'll probably get along splendidly.   tinyshocked


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