AI takeover of Planet Earth update: Robot Apocalypse? Artificial Intelligence Now Able To Reproduce

The extinction of the human race is pretty much inevitable at this point, and the takeover of our (well, it's not really "our's" and never was) planet by machine "life" is too.

Robot Apocalypse? Artificial Intelligence Now Able To Reproduce

Scientists in Amsterdam have created the world’s first batch of robots that can reproduce and create offspring, and experts have warned that the Artificial Intelligence could pose a real threat to humans in the coming years.

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.

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I think the main reason our planet has never been visited by alien life forms is that they reached the same stage of advancement as we have, and then obliterated themselves, just like we're doing.