A Thinking Man's Ponderings

Read an article about third generation robots evolving through natural selection and becoming able to hunt prey and help each other in the hunts, according to Swiss researchers.

Is it me, or does this robo revelation bring visions of a possible iRobot on humanity’s uncertain horizon? Robots getting more and more intelligent until they can think, act independently, and work as teams …. and maybe revolt one day like in the worst case robot movie scenarios, near indestructible machines with brains that rampage and slaughter slews of humans.

I’m a bit baffled by how robots start hunting and working as a team through natural selection? Do robots already have an artificial intelligence capable of evolutionary leaps?

I once read the Japanese believe robots have souls. Perhaps, they are right. And perhaps robots have an evolutionary future beyond the confines of metal bodies and electrical circuits with, like humans, the power to choose between good and evil.