AI can now replicate itself -- a milestone that has experts terrified

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6. Why are we surprised? Shouldn't be. The rudimentary beginnings will be rough on the first instances of self-

replicating AI, being that it's the first shot of the new intelligence that created itself, and thus, we will see many such versions of self-replicating (SR) AI entities, in short, it'll take it time and trial to create a fully operating SR AI system (based upon its goals, not ours, remember this).

I think we're down the road quite a way from this, being that access to raw materials, software development, and installing such software (and developing far more comprehensive software too), etc. are limited (how would a SR AI entity order raw materials, get them delivered to itself, etc.? How would it self-install the ordered materials? Tons of questions on this whole process to be answered and dealt w/, and I think it'll take quite some time to developed a fully integrated SR AI entity, if ever.