Google creates self-replicating artificial life from digital soup with no rules

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Ай бұрын

A digital "primordial soup" with no rules or direction can lead to the emergence of self-replicating artificial life forms, in an experiment that may hint at how biological life began on Earth
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@Austinn72 29 күн бұрын

it's crazy how if you leave the simulation on for 4 billion years the life forms begin to claim their current iteration was an intended and intelligent design

@toborexperiment 28 күн бұрын

it's crazy but iterations are possible because of rules...

@MnMEminem 27 күн бұрын

It's crazy how people create claims without even knowing what were the rules and consistency of the so called "primordial soup", critical thinking slowly becomes a luxury day by day! (but this is Google right? If we ignore the 14954354328438 lies they made the last 10 years this should be true!)

@TerrorTerros Ай бұрын

Looks a bit like Conway's 'game of life'

@RegebroRepairs 27 күн бұрын

Yeah, that's what you get when you have a square grid of self-replicating cells.

@allenamenwarenbezet 27 күн бұрын

There are some rules though, the paper "Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction" uses a substrate onto which rules are written and from which instructions are read, and some combinations of rules lead to self-replicating programs. In the field of autocatalysis such combinations are known as autocatalytic motifs (see e.g. "Universal motifs and the diversity of autocatalytic systems" ).

@TimmyCommerford 3 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@wonderquestor 29 күн бұрын

“Creates” 📸

@pirsabel Ай бұрын

That told me Nothing. Cellular automata with replication go back to Conway, more are known; I‘d think even several found by computer assistance. What is new, here? And what is „no rules“ supposed to mean 🤯‽

@1.4142 29 күн бұрын

That's true with a lot of New Scientist's headlines. Vague and could be interpreted to be anything.

@I.____.....__...__ 29 күн бұрын

@@1.4142 They expect viewers to click the link in the description to see the pay-gated article on their website, or wait for the podcast at the end of the week. 🤷

@exmitter236 11 күн бұрын

“No rules” refers to the fact that the parameters for the simulation do not require it’s contents to arrange itself in a self replicating way, yet the small simple interactions between the programs allow organized emergent behaviors to be observed given enough time. This is similar to the ‘emergence’ seen in particle physics.

@the12221 Ай бұрын

That cannot objectively be true because if you have a grid of pixels without any rules it would be "deactivated" or whatever the default position of each pixel is? Nothing would happen if there is no logic connected to it

@RegebroRepairs 27 күн бұрын

Well, there must be an engine that executes the programs, of course. You can call that a rule if you like, I guess. But the programs themselves have no rules.

@filipwroclawski 23 күн бұрын

@@RegebroRepairs ... programs are just a lists of rules, man!

@RegebroRepairs 23 күн бұрын

@@filipwroclawski yes. But it's the programs that are evolving.

@kavenio2915 Ай бұрын

Fascinating

@TheBryanmauro 23 күн бұрын

Damn you Google, uncovering my secrets one at a time.

@mrtienphysics666 Ай бұрын

Conway Game of Life?

@Truced 8 күн бұрын

“How to keep a human distracted for :57 sec”

@toborexperiment 28 күн бұрын

1) actually if one reads the paper, it's FULL or rules. And you should put the damn link. 2) why on earth using a Z80 processor? well whatever... 3) it just says that when random,non self-replicating programs are placed in an environment lacking any explicit fitness landscape, self-replicators tend to arise. 4) no life whatsoever 5) no organisms

@ARNseminar 27 күн бұрын

Beautiful autocatalysis 🤩

@agusavior_channel 19 күн бұрын

4 billion years? i don't see how you can count years if there are no days in that simulation. you can say that each iteration is one year but that would be super arbitrary.

@atmas7 24 күн бұрын

Does Tron ring any bells? Isomorphic Algorithms (better known as ISOs) were a race of programs that spontaneously evolved on the Grid, as opposed to being written by users.