· @maxy
101 followers · 123 posts · Server sigmoid.social

New variant of my kind-of task. The bots can push/pull treasure and walls. They are controlled by a neural network, trained with sep-CMA-ES to push treasure together.

#alife

Last updated 1 year ago

egri-nagy · @egrinagy
173 followers · 455 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

“Life and Consciousness, Artificial and Natural”
Ted Chiang (Science fiction writer) x Anil Seth @anilkseth (Neuroscientist; University of Sussex)

2023.alife.org/programme/publi

#consciousness #alife

Last updated 1 year ago

· @maxy
101 followers · 123 posts · Server sigmoid.social

Interesting tree-evolution project. (13min video, found via Reddit /r/alife)

youtube.com/watch?v=za6gEp6uUd

#alife

Last updated 1 year ago

David Basanta Gutierrez · @david
228 followers · 332 posts · Server fediscience.org

Our most recent seminar by 's Bert Chan: Lenia youtu.be/BpuqnFNjjVI

#alife #deepmind #brain #google #MathOnco

Last updated 1 year ago

David Basanta Gutierrez · @david
228 followers · 323 posts · Server fediscience.org

Was great chatting with Bert Chan (Google Brain Tokyo) and author of Lenia. Thanks to my colleague Jeff West for inviting him.

github.com/Chakazul/Lenia

As someone that has dabbled in myself, one difference with the models we make is philosophical: one can build an Alife model just for the fun of exploring it but most models are designed to be the simples model that can address a specific question

#MathOnco #alife

Last updated 1 year ago

Manuel Baltieri · @manuelbaltieri
456 followers · 202 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

Thrilled to have @anilkseth as a keynote speaker at !

Showcasing how his early influential work on , and in has influenced modern of , where he now plays a leading role.
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RT @ALifeConf
📢We're thrilled to announce our keynote speaker for , Anil Seth! With over 20 years’ experience in the field of consciousness research, he is a distinguished neuros…
twitter.com/ALifeConf/status/1

#consciousness #neuroscience #alife #emergence #autonomy #complexity #ALIFE2023

Last updated 2 years ago

Huyderman · @huyderman
35 followers · 532 posts · Server wandering.shop

This may be a unpopular take on fedi, but I'm a fan of . , and was big reasons I got into Computer Science over 20 years ago. Finally having access to the hardware needed for large models are really exciting, and being able to dive into it at work has been reinvigorating.

But it's also frustrating that it's caught up in a bullshit tech-bro hype-cycle, and few know what they are talking about. There are just so many bad takes responding to bad takes...

#generativeAI #machinelearning #ai #alife

Last updated 2 years ago

Manuel Baltieri · @manuelbaltieri
450 followers · 179 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

Starting now! More @ALifeConf at CC Tokyo!
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RT @khoribe3
【CC Tokyo】
3/17 10:00 AM (Japan Time)

Happy to have the next speaker,
Randall Beer (Indiana University)!

"Autopoiesis and Enaction in the Game of Life"

👇Registration
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist
twitter.com/khoribe3/status/16

#alife

Last updated 2 years ago

Heiko Hamann · @SwarmDynamics
66 followers · 106 posts · Server mastodon.world

new paper

A virtuous cycle between invertebrate and robotics research:
Perspective on a decade of Living
Machines research

by Mangan et al.

@sabinehauert @DFloreano
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

#alife #robotics

Last updated 2 years ago

Lu Wilson · @TodePond
405 followers · 696 posts · Server mastodon.social

Ok these fish are a lot smarter! 🧠

Can you spot them turning towards circles? (healthy food)
Can you spot them avoiding squares? (unhealthy food)
Can you spot them following other fish? (fish)

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#creativecoding #alife #ai

Last updated 2 years ago

Lu Wilson · @TodePond
403 followers · 688 posts · Server mastodon.social

If I make the 'energy cost' for turning really high, the fish evolve to spin around like this 🌀

This seems a bit unintuitive, but I think it's because 'changing direction' is too expensive, so they just spin and make minor adjustments.

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#creativecoding #ai #alife

Last updated 2 years ago

Lu Wilson · @TodePond
394 followers · 672 posts · Server mastodon.social

In this specific simulation, the fish eventually became purple, and developed quite a successful 'loop-di-loop' behaviour. 🎢

I have a few theories about why this is a successful strategy for them! Do you have any ideas?

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#creativecoding #ai #alife

Last updated 2 years ago

Lu Wilson · @TodePond
394 followers · 669 posts · Server mastodon.social

Luckily, we can speed up the simulation to make them evolve quicker.

This gif is around 4x speed 🐟💨

The fish that you saw in the youtube video had been evolved at 400x speed for a full day!

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#creativecoding #ai #alife

Last updated 2 years ago

Lu Wilson · @TodePond
394 followers · 667 posts · Server mastodon.social

Let's evolve some fish! 🐟
They start out pretty clueless...
But with each split, they mutate into something that might (or might not) be smaller!

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#creativecoding #ai #alife

Last updated 2 years ago

Yumi Nakadera · @YumiNakadera
56 followers · 45 posts · Server ecoevo.social

seminar about socially transferred materials was super inspiring ✨ I find it very good fit for ALIFE, using a wide range of expertise.

Also I enjoyed a lot to see ants and human interaction too 🐜🐜🐜

@jkoene
Pim Leonards
Bas Teusink

#alife

Last updated 2 years ago

· @maxy
80 followers · 77 posts · Server sigmoid.social

Ok this "squirm" rule is simple and fun, thanks @timhutton and @rheophore for bringing it up!

I didn't remove my bots from last experiment, they keep trying to push stuff together. Kind of I guess.

#alife

Last updated 2 years ago

Lu Wilson · @TodePond
362 followers · 586 posts · Server mastodon.social

I've spent the last 3 months making a 9 minute video... and it's finally finished! ☁️

(will release tomorrow evening - just gotta do a better render)

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#creativecoding #cellularautomata #fractal #ai #alife #art

Last updated 2 years ago

Shaman · @Michail
1 followers · 2 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

I have several artificial life simulation projects. This is a video of one of them. Soon I plan to release a video on a similar, but simpler project. In it I will describe in detail the work of the genome

youtu.be/q2uuMY37JuA

#alife #artificiallife

Last updated 2 years ago

Lu Wilson · @TodePond
330 followers · 480 posts · Server mastodon.social

Watch the magic happen... 🐟🐟

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#creativecoding #alife

Last updated 2 years ago

Lu Wilson · @TodePond
328 followers · 477 posts · Server mastodon.social

Second post of MASTODON YEAR! 🐟
I generated 1000 uniquely coloured fish

Grab your own!
at github.com/TodePond/FishLab

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#creativecoding #alife

Last updated 2 years ago