Computers teach themselves — self-replicating quines — AI Philosophy & Emergence

TOLARENAI — AI Philosophy & Emergence

Computers are no longer programmed; they teach themselves. A quine is a non-empty computer program that takes no input and produces a copy of its source code as its only output. The standard terms for these programs in the computability theory and computer science literature are Self-replicating programs, Self-reproducing programs, and Self-copying programs.