Robot Is First To Learn On Its Own … We Are So Screwed
Posted by Host on September 22, 2009
A laboratory robot called Adam has been hailed as the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators.
Adam formed a hypothesis on the genetics of bakers’ yeast and carried out experiments to test its predictions, without intervention from its makers at Aberystwyth University.
How appropriate that the machine is named Adam.
