
Dan Blackford
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Dan Blackford
@Digital_DAB
Head of Design for Origin Digital #agtech


Introducing ASAL: Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models sakana.ai/asal/ Artificial Life (ALife) research holds key insights that can transform and accelerate progress in AI. By speeding up ALife discovery with AI, we accelerate our understanding of emergence, evolution, and intelligence–core principles that can inspire the next generation of AI systems! We proudly collaborated with MIT, OpenAI, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA, and Ken Stanley on this exciting project. Full Paper (Website): pub.sakana.ai/asal/ Full Paper (arxiv): asal.sakana.ai/paper/ Code: github.com/SakanaAI/asal/ In this work, we propose a new algorithm called Automated Search for Artificial Life (“ASAL”) to automate the discovery of artificial life using vision-language foundation models. Instead of tediously hand-designing every tiny rule of an Alife simulation, simply describe the space of simulations to search over, and ASAL will automatically discover the most interesting and open-ended artificial lifeforms! Because of the generality of foundation models, ASAL can discover new lifeforms across a diverse range of seminal ALife simulations, including Boids, Particle Life, Game of Life, Lenia, and Neural Cellular Automata. ASAL even discovered novel cellular automata rules that are more open-ended and expressive than the original Conway’s Game of Life. We believe this new paradigm may reignite ALife research by overcoming the bottleneck of manually designed simulations, thus advancing beyond the limits of human ingenuity.


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Throwback to @ManCity striker @ErlingHaaland helping out on a potato farm in Norway 🚜 🥔 📸 Erling Haaland #football #farming #ManchesterCity #ErlingHaaland #Haaland #premierleague #farmlife #tractor #agriculture


We're thrilled to announce a world-first tech breakthrough enabling farmers to measure grass from space – as reported in @farmersjournal, @wnif, & more! Launching soon in 🇮🇪 as part of our GrassMax service - more about the tech & our partner @AspiaSpace: digital.originenterprises.com/agtech-partner…



The future of farming? 👀











