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>About traslating this from a virtual world to the real world... I can't imagine who would think it's a good idea to give this type of freedom to machines in a physical world, were consequences are way riskier than something digital (and yes, digitally they could empty your bank account, physically they could kill someone. One is much worser than the other).

Right now there are robots in many factories around the world, some are discrete machines that aren't tethered down and have movement capabilities. You don't think that there are factory managers/etc out there drooling about the idea of getting those or something similar to be able to do general factory tasks?

Imagine your employee who tapes up boxes before shipment quits one day out of the blue. "Hey, package carrying bot 9000, can you go tape those boxes? I'll have someone show you what to do"

Not necessarily a good idea still but just because we don't want it doesn't mean there aren't a million beneficial uses of this kind of generalizing.

My thinking is that it enables a "more full" virtual world.

It’s to replace qa testers for video games

They’re expensive and ruin our bottom lines.