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Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line (arxiv.org)
3 points by rahton 486 days ago
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Not quite "self-replicating AI". More of a quine. Still cool, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)

Discussion (17 points, 2 days ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990401
Is this real?
In a way which is a lot more boring than than it first sounds.

We've had non-"AI" self-replicating code for many decades.