### Lions and Tigers and...Frogs? Oh my!!! 
![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTpn9criZ6ppRSrCFTUcrPQvwoZXLB4phiK1sf4bpsGYx/image.png)
[source](https://youtu.be/WhtJKbzOg9U)

**You saw it here first...** 
...unless you saw it at Twitter yesterday.

You also might have seen an offbeat, unbelievable tale of an AI on the loose, thanks to @tristancarax challenging us with [The 31 Sentence Contest](https://steemit.com/31sentencecontest/@tristancarax/the-31-sentence-contest-round-8) (now on Round 8)...

![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRwLZgJTNEcZf3hLdvJS5x7DCNP1Y6bVGu3iDwu7oFUJm/image.png)

#### ... I wrote about an AI housed in a SevenUp can...
***
[![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRJPBmPSkvHJ5Pb3gz6RkSrUn69ukduqriJYcU64hf1oZ/image.png)](https://steemit.com/31sentencecontest/@carolkean/miss-diode-strikes-again-the-31-sentence-contest-round-8)
#### ....which she quickly outgrows 
(in terms of learning and evolving and forming her own ideas) and ultimately escapes. ***Sounds ludicrous, I know.*** 

But now....
#### Twitter is hopping with news of stem cells from frogs 
being used to create organic, programmable robots - designed by “evolutionary algorithm” on a supercomputer. 

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[The Guardian](http://dlvr.it/RMzJb6) | by Ian Sample  @iansample | Mon 13 Jan 2020
> “Be warned. If the rise of the robots comes to pass, the apocalypse may be a more squelchy affair than science fiction writers have prepared us for. Researchers in the US have created the first living machines by assembling cells from African clawed frogs into tiny robots that move around under their own steam.…”

> ...“‘These are entirely new lifeforms. They have never before existed on Earth,’ said Michael Levin, the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. ‘They are living, programmable organisms.’”


Mark Rushing - on Twitter as @adaptiveoptics -
> Living robots made from frog legs with a supercomputer brain? I guess the Borg have assimilated their first witch. 

At YouTube, all I can find is a Brit summarizing The Guardian article and, worse, a slide show with factoids from the article (I highly recommend you kill the annoying background music!)
https://youtu.be/WhtJKbzOg9U

Twitter: hate it or not, it's a great source of links to real news.

![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPN53GsTcoDkWkV3QFQG7jZe9mFd1jhLmyryLquPfbo2C/image.png)
[source](https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-frog-statue-2421609/)

And @tristancarax with [The 31 Sentence Contest](https://steemit.com/31sentencecontest/@tristancarax/the-31-sentence-contest-round-8) has inspired some awesome, futuristic, dystopian, or just-plain-fun, or poignant and all-too-authentic, tales for readers who love stories that go off the beaten path. The stories are short - only 31 sentences each - so check it out!

#creativecoin #palnet #contest #creativewriting #fiction #story #microfiction #theappreciator #ocd #oc #theluvbug