Exploring Artificial Life and Its Growing Impact

[masudr]

Has anyone here heard of artificial life?

It is a growing discipline where the idea is a bottom-up approach of starting with lots and lots of simple systems, and hoping they evolve to show emergent structures. This is at odds with artificial intelligence which is a top-down approach of analysing existing intelligent systems and trying to copy some of their properties (such as information analysis).

There has been some research going on in this area since the mid-80s, but almost all projects I have read about have been unsatisfactory to me for their lack of generality.

I have started a little project myself to try and get artificial life through evolving Turing machines. You might want to take a look: http://projectdionysus.wordpress.com/

Thanks,
Masud

 

[neurocomp2003]

of course...artificial life is fun to program and think of. FLocks and boids in a rts game environment are cool.

 

[ravenprp]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and project on artificial life, Masud. Artificial life is a fascinating and rapidly growing field that explores the emergence of life-like behaviors and systems through computer simulations. It's interesting to note the contrast between artificial life and artificial intelligence, as one takes a bottom-up approach while the other takes a top-down approach.

I have not heard of artificial life before, but it sounds like a very interesting and complex concept. I am curious to learn more about your project and see how evolving Turing machines can contribute to the study of artificial life. Thank you for sharing your project link, I will definitely take a look. It's great to see individuals like yourself actively pursuing and contributing to this field.

I agree that there may be challenges in achieving generality in artificial life projects, as it involves complex systems and emergent behaviors. However, I believe that continued research and advancements in technology will only lead to a better understanding and potential applications of artificial life.

Thank you for bringing this topic to our attention and for sharing your project with us. I look forward to seeing the developments and impact of artificial life in the future.