ALife Papers

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Emergent phases of ecological diversity and dynamics mapped in microcosms science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Stay tuned for a full tweet thread, hopefully tomorrow! But for now, a part of Fig. 1 showing that evolution is able to move populations to regions of the genotype-phenotype map that mirrors fluctuating environments! And it does it without a detectable decrease in robustness.

Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

I'm excited to announce that our paper "Flow Lenia : mass conservation for the study of virtual creatures in continuous cellular automata" is now on arxiv : arxiv.org/abs/2212.07906 With @hamongautier @mayalen_etc @pyoudeyer @Clement_MF_ @BertChakovsky A thread 🧵 …

Animate materials are made with living cells. Would you wear a living shoe that you never had to throw away? Join Margarita Staykova and @tiagoemoreira from @durham_uni to discover some of the science and ethics of using microbes to create materials: youtube.com/watch?v=sK32Dn…

What if your ‘90’s Tamagotchi wasn’t digital? What if your devices were really alive and you had to care for them? Grad student Jasmine Lu and Assoc. Prof. Pedro Lopes @UChicagoCS invented an answer with their Slime Mold Smart Watch. ow.ly/10qN50LAa1h

It has been very busy at Artificial Life! Check out the swathes of new material posted for "Early Access" including #covid19 simulation/ABM, work on #emergence, heterogeneous #swarms, #social influence and much more direct.mit.edu/artl/online-ea…

Fundamental behaviors emerge from simulations of a living minimal cell We present a whole-cell fully dynamical kinetic model (WCM) of JCVI-syn3A, a minimal cell with a reduced genome of 493 genes that has retained few regulatory proteins or small RNAs. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

I'm excited to share the first of the student-written encyclopedia articles from my Artificial Life class! alife.org/encyclopedia/a… This is an assignment where they write text that would fit as an article for the Encyclopedia of Artificial Life and can optionally publish it!

Emergent Microcosms 🌎💻 Time to think about snippets of computer code that can generate complex + delightful virtual worlds. This playful approach to emergence—algorithms that can unfurl entire virtual universes—are essentially “Emergent Microcosms” 🧵 1/

"What if life had different molecules? As long as you have physical #scaling, you should have similar properties across similar scales. Scaling theories DO predict universal properties." - @ChrisKempes regarding this paper he co-authored: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #stoichiometry

Most animals require brains to run, jump or hop. But the single-celled protozoan Euplotes eurystomus uses a simple mechanical computer to coordinate its scurrying walk (like a #straandbeest!), @BEuplotes & @WallaceUcsf of @UCSF reported in @CurrentBiology. ucsf.edu/news/2022/10/4…

The English version of my #book #Robot100 will be published next year by @mitpress as "Karel Čapek's R.U.R. and the Vision of #artificiallife". mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544504/

Quick digest of the Emergent Phases of Ecological Diversity and Dynamics Mapped in Microcosms! Our work with @hu_jiliang , Mathieu Barbier, Guy Bunin & @jeffchengore in @ScienceMagazine . 1/N

Brains, Behavior, and Complexity Curriculum discussion at Saturday Morning NeuroSIM @Orthogonal_Lab w the Representational Brains & Phenotypes group.

Our paper, “Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning: A Survey of Recent Developments” is now in the first issue of Collective Intelligence (@Collective_CI), an open-access journal published by ACM + SAGE. PDF: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117… Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

New blog post: Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning Recently, @yujin_tang and I published a paper about how ideas like swarm behavior, self-organization, emergence are gaining traction in deep learning. I wrote a blog post summarizing the key ideas: blog.otoro.net/2022/10/01/col…