Google claims it's been able to simulate 'self-replicating' digital life, but its 'primordial soup' needs a pinch of salt
Google researchers claim that, in an experiment simulating what happens when you leave a bunch of code strings alone for millions of generations, they've observed the emergence of «self-replicators» from what began as non self-replicating code chunks. New Scientist rather implausibly claims this «could mirror—or at least shed light on—the emergence of actual biological life.»