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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…

Our paper, “Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning: A Survey of Recent Developments” is now in the first issue of Collective Intelligence (Collective Intelligence), 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…

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Brains, Behavior, and Complexity Curriculum discussion at Saturday Morning NeuroSIM Orthogonal Research and Education Lab w the Representational Brains & Phenotypes group.

The English version of my #book #Robot100 will be published next year by The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social 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 Jiliang Hu , Mathieu Barbier, Guy Bunin & Jeff Gore in Science Magazine . 1/N

🔔#OriginOfLife digest: 14 new papers, 3 by OoLEN members —hab. zone exoplanets —limitations of assembly theory —LIFE instrument —autocatalysis (co/a Lambert) —ATP as E currency (Silvana Pinna 🚀) —RNA struct fluctuations (co/a Ryo Mizuuchi (水内 良)) +more alexandrechampagne.io/ool-digest/dig…

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!), Ben Larson & Wallace Marshall of UC San Francisco reported in Current Biology. ucsf.edu/news/2022/10/4…

"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." - Chris Kempes regarding this paper he co-authored: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #stoichiometry

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/

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!

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/…

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…

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

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

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 Gautier Hamon Mayalen Etcheverry Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Clément Moulin-Frier Bert Chan A thread 🧵 …

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

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.

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

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