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AI And AGI Are Old Hat. When Is Artificial Life (AL)?
We have 3D printers. We have sustainable energy production. We have sensors galore. We finally and definitively have artificial intelligence. We just need to provide the right mandates and cut an “organism” loose.
If we provided a contained environment with the right ingredients, and the artificial intelligence to find sustenance and self preserve using sensors, and finally reproduce (with 4D printing, we can control the life and reproductive cycle), we would have Artificial Life (AL). They may not produce any high art or even hominid societies … yet … but such life can persist and self sustain … at least as long as the ingredients stay available.
Wait, is this what God did? Wait … did he not give us a mandate to preserve all humans or at least to not harm others? Oh wait. He just forgot to throw the “inviolable” switch on in his own design. Wait … why did God not give us endless resources? Oh wait. He has — with the Cosmos. Just that we are still trying to get after it.
So is God just a very advanced human or an AGI or something?
C’mon Musk, Bezos, Nadella, Pichai, Cook and I guess Altman soon … live outside your shareholders’ and your own needs and leapfrog this AI/AGI death march by making Artificial Life (AL). Be actual Gods. Imagine a world with a billion Elons. X would…
