GAIPS researchers Henrique Fonseca & António Fernandes explore whether media can act as a soft regulator for safe AI, using game theory.
Published & presented at #ALIFE2025 after the 2025 AI Governance Modelling Workshop at Teesside University.
🔗 Paper: direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...
🚀 If you are curious about the SOTA in ALife research, feel free to explore the proceedings and dive into the cutting-edge work presented at ALIFE 2025.
#ALIFE2025 #ArtificialLife #Research #ConferenceProceedings
Our #ALIFE2025 paper is out! 🎉 We show that even when two circuits produce the same output, their evolutionary potential can differ greatly. #Evolution at the smallest scale.
“Parameter Evolvability in Gene Expression Models Drives Phenotypic Adaptation”
🔗 direct.mit.edu/isal/proceed...
This summer school truly highlighted how early hands on learning can spark imagination and inspire the next generation of innovators.
🔗 www.crosslabs.org/blog/summer-...
#ALIFE #ALIFE2025 #CrossLabs #SummerSchool
The 22nd issue of the Artificial Life Newsletter is out! 🐛
This edition was a print edition, in tandem with #ALIFE2025 last week in Kyoto.
Enjoy learning about the laziest form of life and origami robots in this edition! 📚
alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/e...
Also, our first workshop on cultural evolution at #alife2025: thanks to invited speakers James Borg and @uchiyama.bsky.social for their talks in session 1! In session 2, we had an interactive generative game with some creative creatures and cultures emerging. Thanks to all who came along 👾🦠
Last week was Alife in Kyoto - feeling enriched and inspired :) Some of the highlights: keynotes, workshops, Alife art and Japanese sweets making. Dinner table chat about embodiment and time. Thanks to the hard work of the organisers for putting together an awesome conference 👾🍁 #alife2025
Here's a talk that's quite different from ones I've given before, although it has connections to everything I often talk about, presented at #alife2025:
thoughtforms.life/meet-a-new-s...
(downloadable slides link there too). 🧪
Swipe up to try a new variant on Conway's Game of Life. And another. And another. This is how artificial-life researchers spread the joy after the #ALIFE2025 conference! They say it's like TikTok, but I wouldn't know.... ⚙️🧫 rulehunt.org?rulesetHex=7... #cellularautomata #gameoflife
A tiktok for cellular automata rules!
This project was developed during the #ALife2025 hackathon (can you believe how fast people make things?) and won the hackathon prize!
rulehunt.org?rulesetHex=7...
💐🌺🌷From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much for a wonderful conference. You all make it amazing— each and everyone one of you. I am so lucky to have met you 🌸✨🩷 #alife2025 #alife
Our (in the making) paper combining morphogenetic fields and neural cellular cellular automata with @miltonllera.bsky.social, Eleni Nisioti & @risi.bsky.social got a little award at @alife2025.bsky.social #ALife2025 💮✨
Sadly, I have to leave from #ALIFE2025 now
It has been absolutely inspiring several days here in Kyoto
Many many many many thanks to the organizers!!
Our last keynote speaker at #ALIFE2025 is @annaciaunica.bsky.social, who discussed the importance of bodies when talking about intelligence and agency. Her integrative approach shows that we need to adapt and extend the notion embodiedment to reflect the co-autopoietic nature of life.
The SONI session turned out a great—shout out to the speakers & the panelists @emilydolson.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens.
#ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
#ALIFE2025 final keynote Anna Ciaunica discusses the importance of bodies and embodiment in understanding life and mind
Hey #ALIFE2025 people! Have you heard of Assembly Theory? A month ago, I wrote a good, objective essay summarizing AT's contributions, limitations, and possible improvements. It's perfect if you don't want to read all the critiques and counter-critiques that have been written!
How can the physics of the Game of Life be modified to create extended non-equilibrium conditions? What new structures could be created with these changes? Hank Rainwater addresses these questions, showing self-organization and phase transitions in driven CA.
#ALIFE2025
Last day in #ALIFE2025 talking about evolutionary robotics. Sounds like here "evolution" and "learning" are clearly separated. I'm still unsure what is the interplay between #evolution, #learning and #adaptability. Surely, #information, #knowledge and #memory are keywords in this discussion.
Now Cédric Koller proposes a novel analytical method to count short trajectories to simple attractors. His method reveals a quantitative divide between Classes 1/2 and Classes 3/4 of Elementary Cellular Automata.
#ALIFE2025
I start the last day of #ALIFE2025 at the cellular automata session, where Matias Barandiaran presented his work on physical reservoir computing. His approach allows us to explore new diverse structures in graph cellular automata.
What new artificial life research is on the horizon? What are the biggest unsolved problems in the field? Dominique Chen, Emily Dolson, and Hiro Iizuka closed #ALIFE2025 's fourth day with a panel discussing the future of artificial life!
