[HN Gopher] Computer-designed organisms
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       Computer-designed organisms
        
       Author : infinity0
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2021-12-01 20:14 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (cdorgs.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (cdorgs.github.io)
        
       | shanxS wrote:
       | Can someone with more understanding than me please comment what
       | can be acheived with this tech in next decade or several decades.
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       | From a layman perspective this seems outstanding to me but I am
       | failing to imagine what can be achieved from this?
        
       | ziggus wrote:
       | Based on the title I thought this was going to be about simulated
       | organisms, but no, it's real organisms designed by an AI.
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       | This is simultaneously really cool and supremely creepy.
        
         | bobthechef wrote:
         | They sometimes put "organism" in quotes, which I think is
         | important. A far as I can tell, these aren't bona fide
         | organisms, but appropriated tissue that has been treated in
         | some way to incidentally behave in useful ways, sort of like if
         | I sliced out your bicep and modified it somehow to flap about
         | and therefore "walk" across the room.
        
           | FredPret wrote:
           | The flapping biceps cometh
        
         | watersb wrote:
         | And my brain initially read it as "orgasms".
         | 
         | TAKE MY MONEY... oh.
         | 
         | Ok.
        
           | DoktorDelta wrote:
           | Well, there is the AutoBlow AI...
        
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