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Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models

Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models

ALife researchers craft virtual ecosystems, robotic organisms, self-replicating programs, and biochemical simulations to uncover the deep mechanisms of complexity, evolution, and intelligence. ” Over time, ALife has grown to study the general emergence of complex behaviors from simple components, encompassing phenomena such as self-organization, collective intelligence, and open-ended evolution. In Lenia, prompts like “a self-replicating pattern” revealed dynamic structures mimicking biological processes, while Boids captured emergent behaviors such as “collective intelligence” and “a Fibonacci spiral in nature”.

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