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Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve
Tim Taylor, Alan Dorin
2020
Reference
Taylor, T., & Dorin, A. (2020). Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve. Cham: Springer.
BibTeX
@book{taylor2020rise,
title = {Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve},
author = {Taylor, Tim and Dorin, Alan},
publisher = {Springer},
year = {2020},
isbn = {978-3-030-48233-6},
address = {Cham},
category = {book},
keywords = {history, selfrep}
}
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