March 1, 20215 min read, 961 words
Published: March 1, 2021 | 5 min read, 961 words
January 20, 2020by Simon Coghlan and Kobi Leins,A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world's first "living robots".This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists their recipe for making a new lifeform called xenobots from...
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I don't believe the article supports the headline. A minimal criterion for life is that the "organism" is capable of reproduction. Reproduction, after all, is the end game for life. Since these creations do not reproduce (as far as I can tell from the article) they aren't a true form of life. Certainly, there are exceptions to the reproduction rule: there are individuals and even species (mules, for example) that are not capable of reproducing, but these are considered pathologic or abnormal conditions. Now, if scientists create an intelligent being capable of reproduction . . .
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