Today, in APL appeared a paper about an intelligent breed of computers taking over control of a cold atom experiment using their superior genetics skills. In fact, it was our lab. We are not scared.

Rohringer, W., Bücker, R., Manz, S., Betz, T., Koller, C., Göbel, M., Perrin, A., Schmiedmayer, J. & Schumm, T.
Stochastic optimization of a cold atom experiment using a genetic algorithm
Applied Physics Letters, 2008, Vol. 93(26), pp. 264101