Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models

[dmm]

pub.sakana.ai/asal/

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[dmm]

https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1871385917342265592

https://github.com/SakanaAI/asal/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17799

[dmm]

This is a very interesting collaboration which includes Louis Kirsch and Ken Stanley:

https://x.com/kenneth0stanley/status/1871397155719815198

https://x.com/hardmaru/status/1871387115004846369

[dmm]

https://x.com/akarshkumar0101/status/1871399829097886095 lead author

[waev]

i have an impression he reinvented the Game of Life

[dmm]

they built on top of a large field of science/alife/computer-art which grown from the Game of Life.

one of the things they built of top of is Lenia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenia and https://chakazul.github.io/lenia.html

(one other thing this work has done is with the classical Game of Life: "In Game of Life (right), ASAL identifies novel cellular automata rules that are more open-ended and expressive than the original Conway’s Game of Life.")

"Because of the generality of Foundation Models, Automated Search for Artificial Life works effectively across a diverse range of ALife substrates including Boids, Particle Life, Game of Life, Lenia, and Neural Cellular Automata. A major result highlighting the potential of this technique is the discovery of previously unseen Lenia and Boids lifeforms, as well as cellular automata that are open-ended like Conway’s Game of Life."