Are LLMs Alife? Eleni Nisioti Claire Aoi Elias Najarro Laetitia Teodorescu Andrew Dai #ALIFE2024

The amazing performances that participants built during the ALife-Art Hackathon #ALife2024. Looking forward to organising it again next year in Kyoto!

Evolution, aesthetics, and sailing under the fierce Valencia sun ☀️ Thank you to Eric Medvet 🇪🇺, Iñaki Hidalgo and rest of organisers & attendees for the brilliant week at SPECIES Society

First day of ANTS Conference in beautiful autumny Konstanz 🍂 Brilliant first keynote by Iain Couzin on the geometry of collective decision making—connecting neural dynamics to collective behaviour in humans.

Three fun days discussing collective intelligence at Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour. We had the chance of presenting our work on how to control collective systems by bringing them close to criticality—from flocking birds to humans in social networks w/@SaraLNeven Looking forward to next ANTS Conference 🐜

Some thoughts and practical tips on how to develop better coding practices in academia in this paper—relevant well beyond bioinformatics. It even comes with a climbing analogy 🧗 Paper: academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

Fascinating results. All you need to evolve multicellularity is smashing single cell archaea together! From an ALife/biocomplexity angle, it speaks of how critical it is having a dynamic self-organising representation/substrate to evolve complexity science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The ALIFE Conference 2025 deadline has been extended one week—new deadline May 11th 2025 23:59 AoE Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏

Ammonite chaos #SciArt

We're excited to announce final program of the ALIFE Conference 2025 SONI session which hosting a panel discussion with Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social), Sebastian Risi, [email protected] emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho on 'Self-Organisation: a new paradigm of intelligence?' Full program sites.google.com/view/soni-alif… See you in Kyoto ⛩️