They seem an extremely underexplored concept when it comes to futurology of any sort, be it some hard sci fi writer or an actual scientist making genuine predictions. It seems to me a robot made partially or totally out of organic materials might have several advantages over an inorganic one.The possibility of reproduction is a big one. I imagine that would be much easier to pull off than self-replicating inorganic bots. Biolgical intelligence also seems to be far more energy efficient and potentially adaptive than silicon. Not even mentioning that there is no guarantee whatsoeve that we can even make meaningfully intelligence inorganic AI, while biology has already demonstrated it's ability to produce intelligence of all sorts billions of times over throughout history and prehistory.Even militarily; an inorganic combat bot will probably outperform an organic one, but an organic one has no worries about electronic warfare, EMPs, hacking, or anything of the sort, and would be far more capable of self repair and even self replication (imagine planting simple wombs in the soil that absorb organic matter until they eventually construct another combat bot to emerge right from the ground).You could probably come up with certain advantages an organic bot would have over an inorganic one in nearly any field.But nobody seems to discuss these possibilities. Is there any reason why or has the concept simply not penetrated the public consciousness just yet?
They’re just way harder to make. The only biobots made so far have been small clumps of cells created in a lab. Inorganic robots exist today, organic ones are probably still a century away.> Not even mentioning that there is no guarantee whatsoeve that we can even make meaningfully intelligence inorganic AI, while biology has already demonstrated it's ability to produce intelligence of all sorts billions of times over throughout history and prehistoryThis would be one of the biggest reasons for a future society to invest in them though. Tech bros failing to create the AI they promise leaving Biochads to pick up the slack
>>16937056Ask the Greys.
>>16937065The idea is less about outperforming machines but that you could potentially grow a simple programmable organism from a small clump of cells and some nutrient broth.
Organic bots might be what finally pushes humanity into obsoletion, taking the last few tasks a biological mind and body is required for (after AI has taken most everything else) and doing it better and cheaper than a human.
>>16937056>biological robotsBlade Runner went down that road 40+ years ago
How would you prgram a biobot? That seems a big issue. Maybe when we've cracked DNA data storage we can figure it out.>>16938232>hollywood comes up with intersting idea like aliens, robots, biobots, anything of the sort>it's just some guy that looks slightly different or is a bit stronger than usualEvery time with these hacks
>>16938245>How would you prgram a biobot?Beatings
One of the strengths of these things - self-replication - is also a potential disadvantage. Some ecoterrorist could release a bunch into a remote area, tell them to survive and reproduce, and have them utterly decimate the local ecosystem all while possibly getting harder and harder to contain thanks to natural selection now applying to then. >>16938254Or sex
What if instead of biorobots you just use trained beavers
>>16937056Isn't social engineering all about creating biorobots by hijacking? It's already here, anon.
>>16938290>could have some cool and exotic biomachines to help us out and work for us>instead all we've got is goyslop-munching NPCsFrick my chud life
>>16937056We already ARE biological robots.
>>16937098Without humans to value this world, it is nothing but dead matter swirling in a void. We are purpose. All of us.
>>16938245They symbolism in the movie loses something. In the book everyone had replicant animals because all the real ones were dying. It was some weird social stewardship of reality
>>16938296That thing would shit
