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One Man's Quest To Build True Artificial Life

Posted by Unknown on from the emacs-already-does-that dept.

Atriune writes "The creator of the renowned Creatures artificial life series is at it again. Fifteen years after the initial success of the Creatures Trilogy, Steve Grand continues his quest to go beyond simulation, and create real artificial life." It's hard to tell if the approach is realistic, but it is certainly novel. Perhaps this will succeed in the areas the Lisp hackers of the '80s failed.

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  1. Bad link - here's the right one by Howard+Beale · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://mashable.com/2011/03/03/artificial-life-steve-grand/?asid=92c52ad2

  2. Lisp Hackers? by makubesu · · Score: 4, Funny

    A beautiful language like Lisp is hardly one that you "hack" stuff together in. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go find a missing parenthesis.

  3. Re:well... by sammyF70 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Another way to put it is that he is a dreamer with a goal. If you ever played any of the games of the Creatures series (especially Creatures3 and, astonishingly, Creatures Village, both available at GOG.com), you probably know that the norns felt quite real and sometimes behaved in bafflingly intelligent-looking ways. So, although I don't think he'll reach his ideological goal to 100%, I'm looking forward to see how Grandroid turns out.

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