Timeline for answer to Could robots evolve? by ProjectApex
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| Oct 6, 2021 at 1:55 | comment | added | ProjectApex | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 1:54 | comment | added | Pelinore | Yes, & the most basic relevant fact & answer is 'data copy errors makes it inevitable' regardless of how advanced they are or aren't, no good answer can exist that doesn't give that top billing far less one that ignores it. | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 1:47 | comment | added | ProjectApex | @Pelinore let me say this again: we're talking about self replicating, self repairing, clearly futuristic robots which are not possible with our current tech level. We're talking about sci-fi setting, and clearly refers to technology far more advanced than ours, that assuming it isn't borderline magic disguised as techno babble so no, you can't objectively affirm it's impossible for there not to be bugs, because the one who will define that is the OP depending on what they assume does and doesn't happen to the machines in their setting. | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 1:43 | comment | added | Pelinore | Data copy errors are inevitable in any self replicating system, ergo the answer is a simple 'Yes, it's inevitable' special programming or any of the other fluff you've padded your answer with are at best irrelevant trivia & at worst disguise the fact you've missed the most basic & relevant fact involved in any good answer to this question, that being "data copy errors" // they simply don't need to "willingly change their own coding". | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 1:43 | comment | added | ProjectApex | @Pelinore can you objectively affirm that the programming the offspring is necessarily subjective to changes? Or that the robots don't have advanced built-in debugs specifically designed to ensure such errors do not happen? The problem here is that the OP didn't give us every detail about their robots, how they work and the technology level, so I gave an answer that reflects what is necessary for that robot to have (aka it can't have the ability to always copy its programming perfectly and never have any bugs occur no matter the tech level or it can't evolve in any sense). | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 1:37 | comment | added | ProjectApex | @Pelinore we're talking about futuristic, self replicating and self repairing robots. Assuming they will naturally have flaws when copying their programming when they're perfectly capable of things that would require a few decent leaps in robotics isn't exactly something we can absolutely do here. Furthermore I did state that even if they weren't capable of actively modifying their programming they'd still evolve, but in a natural sense (simply become more adapted through environmental pressures) if we assumed imperfect copying of their programming to their offspring. | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 0:50 | comment | added | Pelinore | "It will depend mainly on the robots' programming." // No not really, copy errors happen in digital data & any data that tells them how to build their 'offspring' is inevitably part of the data that they must copy & transfer to their 'child' so if we're assuming self-replicating machines as a given then over an adequate length of time it's inevitable regardless of if there's any special programming to facilitate or hasten their 'evolution' or not // organic evolution is essentially the same, data copying errors in DNA, so not a lot of difference. | |
| Oct 5, 2021 at 22:32 | history | answered | ProjectApex | CC BY-SA 4.0 |