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Welp, it was nice knowing you all. It seems that we humans ate that apple on the tree. We’re too smart for our own good. And soon, we may all be bowing down to Darth Roblox. I introduce you to robots that give birth to more robots.
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Technological Singularity Supposedly Happened in 2014, According to University of Michigan
Scientists have been talking about reaching the point of Technological Singularity for decades now. The concept was first brought up in 1993 before Tim Berners-Lee had even invented the internet.
Basically, singularity in tech terms is the point in time when Artificial Intelligence becomes smarter than humankind. At that point, AI could hypothetically take over the world in a very rapid fashion. It could self-replicate itself and evolve, in ways that we couldn’t keep up with.
Interestingly, researchers at University of Michigan’s Computer Science and Engineering Program claimed that we passed the point of singularity back in March of 2014. The discovery was made by a visiting scientist named Pat Anon. Anon assured everyone, however, that AI was inherently lazy, and that no one should worry.
“I’m aware that my findings do not support the hypotheses that have existed regarding the unimaginable transformations expected in the aftermath of the singularity,” said Anon.
The Moment Was Anticlimactic, Didn’t Bring the Much-Anticipated Robot Apocalypse Because AI Was Too “Lazy”
Anon apologized to anyone who was expecting a dramatic change in reality. The University of Michigan gave the example of a “highly-anticipated event would be rapidly followed by radical impacts on human society.”
Anon continued, “It’s smart and very well organized, that much is clear… But it’s self-absorbed and not as participative as I would have expected, and to that extent, we may have actually dodged a bullet.”
See, don’t worry everyone, we dodged a bullet. Oh, but there’s more.
University of Michigan’s faculty, expressing “dismay” at AI’s “underperformance” and “lack of interest” in “upending civilization” discussed Anon’s findings at length.
AI Interested in “Getting More Done” Could Destroy Us All… Do Robots That Give Birth Count?
“If a properly trained researcher had designed the algorithms and circumstances that led to the unleashing of a self-aware, all-powerful entity, I am sure it would be getting more done,” said an unnamed faculty member.
Of course, we humans are seemingly determined to end up like the people in Idiocracy or Mitchells vs the Machines somehow. And we have been tweaking AI’s capabilities in a post-singularity world for years.
And now, researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have officially announced that they’ve created self-reproducing robots. The New York Post describes MIT’s invention as “swarms of tiny robots that have built-in intelligence, allowing them to build structures, vehicles, or even larger versions of themselves.”
Neil Gershenfeld, director at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, said that they’ve created something called a voxel.
Voxels “transmit power and data as well as force,” said Gershenfeld.
“It could build a structure, or it could build another robot of the same size, or it could build a bigger robot,” added CBA doctoral student Amira Abdel-Rahman.
Hurray! Researchers have created robots that are participatory in their own creation and can give birth to other robots. We are one step closer to a robot apocalypse, everyone. Well done.
