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Open Problems in Artificial Life (2000) [pdf]
- Animats 5y agoGoals #1 and #3 have mostly been achieved. Venter's synthetic cell of 2010 [1] sort of answers #1, and "Optimization of replication, transcription, and translation in a semi-synthetic organism" sort of answers #3.[2][3] That Scripps group has been able to make something that works much like DNA, but has a different vocabulary of base pairs. OpenWorm is working on #2, but were still struggling the last time I looked. So, artificial life isn't very far along yet, but some of the parts do exist. [1] https://www.jcvi.org/research/first-minimal-synthetic-bacterial-cell https://www.jcvi.org/research/first-minimal-synthetic-bacter... [2] https://www.scripps.edu/romesberg/publications.html https://www.scripps.edu/romesberg/publications.html [3] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b02075 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b02075