FLOWERS is offering Master's internships!
Jeremy Perez and I are supervising a project combining artificial life and cultural evolution.
We are also offering a position continuing the team's research on discovering sensimotor agency in Lenia.
Check all the topics below!
flowers.inria.fr/jobs/
3 papers from @flowersinria team are presented this week at the @alife2025.bsky.social , leveraging curiosity-driven AI to explore complex behaviors in #Lenia
All first authors are attending the conference if you want to discuss with them.
Link to interactive websites, papers and code below:
Lenia forest fire model
We're excited to announce final program of the @alife2025.bsky.social SONI session
which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho
Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al...
See you in Kyoto ⛩️
New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2505.15849 : Reed Bender (www.linkedin.com/in/reed-bend...), Karina Kofman (www.linkedin.com/in/karina-ko...), @blaiseaguera.bsky.social
"What Lives? A meta-analysis of diverse opinions on the definition of life"
Very happy that our paper received both the EvoApps best paper and the EvoStar best student paper! Congrats team!!
Emergent Kin Selection of Altruistic Feeding via Non-Episodic Neuroevolution
arxiv.org/abs/2411.10536
Another one.
Here is a cool Flow-Lenia simulation, which is a continuous cellular automaton with two distinct features:
1. Mass conservation - sum of all activations is constant through time
2. Localized update rules - enables simulations with differently behaving matter on the same grid
crazy! What gpu do you use to run it?
Simulation Project: "What if Eye?" Summary by Claus The MIT Media Lab, Camera Culture group, has recently published a project called "What if Eye?". This project aims to computationally simulate the evolution of visual systems, from early light sensors to fully fledged lensed eyes.
ALife Videos Shared by Lana In this edition we have collected quite a few interesting videos, here they all are for your viewing pleasure! "The Physics of Living Systems" with Chris Kempes for "Reason with Science"
A long list of Conferences and Calls
The 21st edition of the #ALife newsletter is out!
This month we have a TON of ALife videos, 2 paper reviews, an amazing simulation and MORE!
alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...
Cool! How many timesteps per second do you hope to achieve?
Ever wonder what a neural network would look like in a novel organism w/o selection for specific structure and function? New #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and transcriptomic analysis of a new kind of Xenobot with a nervous system:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Complex cell-like structures in Flow Lenia
Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠
An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence.
Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th
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This is great news that Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton were awarded the #TuringAward 🚀
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Flowlenia with local update rules
