Self-Healing Robots, Concrete, And — Much — More January 11, 2023 Dancing robots. If you’re not yet among this two-year-old video’s 38 million viewers, treat yourself. Self-healing concrete. A 2000-year-old breakthrough. If only Champlain Towers had been built with this. Self-healing robots. On their way to becoming conscious? “This is not just another research question that we’re working on — this is the question,” he said. “This is bigger than curing cancer. If we can create a machine that will have consciousness on par with a human, this will eclipse everything else we’ve done. That machine itself can cure cancer.” ChatGPT. I’ve saved the most stunning for last. It plays right into a refrain I’ve long been singing: that after 200,000 years, we humans are now living through what will either be the last hundred or two before we hurtle off the rails into extinction . . . or else the dawn of all but unimaginable prosperity and (voluntary) immortality. See, e.g., Homo Deus. It behooves us not to screw it up.