self-replicate
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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AI models are increasingly exhibiting some of the capabilities required to self-replicate across the internet, controlled lab tests suggested.
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025
This ability to self-replicate makes these misfolded proteins infectious, which has enormous implications for public health.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2024
As argued by John von Neumann in 1939, the number of such devices could increase exponentially with time if they self-replicate, a quality enabled by 3D printing and AI technologies.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022
To those unnerved by the idea of reproducing robots, Kriegman said only a fragile set of easily changeable circumstances leads the xenobots to self-replicate.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2021
Four billion years ago or so, basic chemical building blocks gave rise to longer polymers that had a capacity to self-replicate and to perform functions essential to life: namely, storing information and catalyzing chemical reactions.
From Scientific American • Nov. 12, 2017
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