Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve
2020
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This second edition includes an afterword in Chap. 8, written by Tim Taylor in 2024 and based upon an article published in the Artificial Life journal (T. Taylor, 2024) (see Preface to the Second Edition for details). The journal article is © MIT Press 2024 and is reproduced in part here in accordance with the MIT Press publication agreement.
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Citation details
To cite content from Chapters 1–7, the preferred citation is as follows:
Taylor, T., & Dorin, A. (2020). Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve. Cham: Springer.
To cite content from the afterword (Chapter 8), the preferred citation is:
Taylor, T. (2024). An Afterword to “Rise of the Self-Replicators”: Placing John A. Etzler, Frigyes Karinthy, Fred Stahl, and Others in the Early History of Thought About Self-Reproducing Machines. Artificial Life, 30(1), 91–105. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00424
Citations in BibTeX format:
@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},
address = {Cham},
year = {2020},
isbn = {978-3-030-48233-6},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-48234-3}
}@article{taylor2024afterword,
author = {Taylor, Tim},
title = {An Afterword to "Rise of the Self-Replicators": Placing John A. Etzler, Frigyes Karinthy, Fred Stahl, and Others in the Early History of Thought About Self-Reproducing Machines},
journal = {Artificial Life},
year = {2024},
volume = {30},
number = {1},
pages = {91-105},
publisher = {{MIT} Press Journals},
doi = {10.1162/artl_a_00424},
issn = {1530-9185}
}