You've been listening to Andreas on the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast right? 
If you haven't then do. He spend a significant portion of one episode describing such self-sustaining and replicating autonomous agents, paying for their own existence through cryptocurrency.
Very cool stuff, and something I'd have loved to have got into around 15 years ago, when I was doing my masters in AI, except there was no Bitcoin back then. Now I've moved on to even more interesting stuff
If you haven't then do. He spend a significant portion of one episode describing such self-sustaining and replicating autonomous agents, paying for their own existence through cryptocurrency.
Very cool stuff, and something I'd have loved to have got into around 15 years ago, when I was doing my masters in AI, except there was no Bitcoin back then. Now I've moved on to even more interesting stuff