Artificial Life and AI, ETc.

Artificial_life, along with AI and Robotics can make for quite an interesting intersection of technology.

 https://thegradient.pub/an-introduction-to-artificial-life-for-people-who-like-ai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_life

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2014.00008/full

Can We Create ‘Artificial’ Life? Future of Artificial Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYC7ECDA1jk , https://www.youtube.com/@TheWorldOfScienceCo/videos

Scientists Create Artificial Life That Reproduces In a Strange Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnivFz2rbM4

World's first living robots "Xenobots" can now reproduce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9cciBx_oU

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-aliens-may-be-artificial-intelligence-not-life-as-we-know-it  

ET-AI and Artificial+Life.