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Originally Posted by Kizzi
Will agile, dextrous self replicating intelligent robots, on par with humans, be a reality in the future, designed & built by humans, and eventually themselves?
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My sense is that the agility and dexterity will be possible in the near future.
Self-replication would depend on how fundamental the pieces available for assemble are available to the robot. If it simple welds the head to the body then I would suggest that is possible today. If he must fabricate microchips from raw elements that may be awhile. Humans require an entire ecosystem to self-replicate.
Intelligence is the real issue. If an artificial brain were capable of functioning in the way that a human brain does it would need a comparable environment to develop and learn in. Perhaps this development could be downloaded but that would suggest an inability of the robot to deal with nuance peculiar to its environment. If the robot brain must be raised like a child then it would have to offer some efficiency advantage over that person in order to be an alternative to using a person to do the job.
