Hello to anyone interested!

I've started a community evolutionary experiment Using Lenia. I've posted a short with four "creatures" I found in Lenia. In the comment section, you can vote which one is your favourite for any reason, and after enough votes are present (I would say about 10), I will breed the top two and mutate their offspring slightly. The two offspring and parents will then move on to the next round! Hopefully, we can keep this running for a while and see some exciting life forms in Lenia.

https://youtube.com/shorts/lJmvFK-7jxs

I'm looking out for an free AI tool that converts Text to Speech. I want different voices that doesn't sound like a robot but natural human like.

Hi everyone!

I'd like to introduce a research project my team and I have been working on that's inspired by the Sims and Dwarf Fortress: Amorphous Fortress Online. It's an open-ended multi-agent simulation / game engine where you can design FSM-based AI that interact with each other in a small environment.

It's still a work in development and the site has a user guide to help you get familiar with the interface and a feedback form to leave comments and report bugs. So far, we've published some research papers at a ALIFE 2023 workshop and in a NeurIPS 2023 workshop based on our Python version of the engine.

Check out the promo video and come design some fortresses!

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Amorphous Fortress Online Promo

I'm somewhat satisfied how this turned out. I had the idea only a few days ago, and now it's working better than expected. For lack of a better term it is called "Free Energy In Neuronal Evolution" FEINE Simulation (an alternative name might be "Solaris").

This is a neural network in a 2D grid (looping in both directions). Every cell is a neuron and is connected to it's neighbors. It learns nothing, but to predict itself. This is paired with simple evolution, such that cells that are activated proliferate. Out of this emerge many patterns. Waves, latices, fog, moving patches. This first version is simple. A toy model to try things.

It's interesting to watch. Shortly after the start there is a wide variety of patterns. Over time they thin out and often only one pattern is left. I'm don't know yet what is needed to have ongoing variation. Maybe for large enough simulations it would never stabilize because the spreading would not keep up with mutations.

There is one curious phenomena where cells synchronize to produce a wave of extremely high activation which cycles the world. Somewhat reminiscent of the nexus ribbon in Star Trek. This can be very stable over a long time, but sometimes it also dissipates.

Some thing I'd like to add in the future:

• A third dimension with three layers, visualized as red green and blue.
• Save and load function for simulations.
• Some more use for genes.
• Some way to combine genes and weights (similar to sexual reproduction). But what I tired so far produced gray mush.
• Higher variety of inputs.
• Hidden neurons for each cell.
• Output neurons that can trigger actions.

Here are some images.

Looking for an AI which can write long pieces or even entire chapters after giving them a world, event and character personalities to work with. This is purely just for my own enjoyment, like reading fanfic basically.

Willing to use a paid program. Right now GPT really isn't cutting it.

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What is a good AI for translating?

Hello!

Recently got a job offer for a video editor position! I would be doing video edits for clients that want to push shorts on social media.

Most of the videos will be in Dutch (a language I do not speak) and they will require subtitle in Dutch too. The built in subtitle generator in Premier is not the best.

I am looking for a way around it and thinking that maybe translating the transcript on the internet and checking possible mistakes would be a way to do it. Maybe there are more elaborate ways, perhaps using AI that would do audio to text translation. Any suggestions?

Yo,

so, I'm having somewhat of a crisis, due to a lot of personal reasons, one being professional. I am an undergrad in applied mathematics. Lots of people graduating and going to work with data or software engineering. I don't feel like doing any of it. Actually, I kinda know what I'd like to do. I'd like to write stuff like this. But I'm not sure if that's, like, job-worthy? To be clear, I'm making this post here specifically because this text was written for an essay contest at ALIFE2021.

I also sent it to a professor. He said that "it looks like philosophy with some non-trivial mathematics". I took it as a compliment, because it's kinda precisely what I wanted (it was an essay, after all). But does that count as research? Does that somehow produce meaningful knowledge? If so, where do people value that kind of work? What and where should I aim?

Naturally, this essay was too shallow, scientific-research-wise; there was much more to explore, but I think it gives a general idea of the path I'd like to take.

I was afraid of being misunderstood in my intentions or exposing myself too much. I confess I didn't read the rules, so, if I did anything inappropriate by writing this post, I apologize in advance and ask the mods to please delete this post.

And about exposing myself, I do believe the alife community is very, uh, receptive.

Hey Folks, 📷

Good news! The submission deadline of evoMUSART 2024 has been extended to November 15th! 📷

You still have time to submit your work to the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (evoMUSART).

If you work with Artificial Intelligence techniques applied to visual art, music, sound synthesis, architecture, video, poetry, design, or other creative tasks, don't miss the opportunity to submit your work to evoMUSART.

EvoMUSART 2024 will be held in Aberystwyth, Wales, UK, between 3 and 5 April 2024. 📷

For more information, visit the conference webpage: https://www.evostar.org/2024/evomusart

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https://reddit.com/link/17aq6d1/video/qan621fwkyub1/player

Map of the "organic" content in the soil during the aLife simulation.The darker, the more “organic”.Red zones are an overabundance of organic matter; life is impossible in this place.Organic matter remains in the soil after organisms die.Some species can feed on organic matter.Photosynthesis also depends on the amount of organic matter. The more organic matter there is at a given point, the more energy a photosynthetic organism can receive from the Sun.The video shows a quick rewind of a long simulation.

What happened to the Swimbots? Seems like nothing has happened to them this entire year.

We are organizing the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) and we think it may be of interest to many of you. The conference will take place in Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom, between 3 and 5 April 2024.

If you work with Artificial Intelligence techniques applied to visual art, music, sound synthesis, architecture, video, poetry, design, or other creative tasks, you can present your work at this conference. The deadline for paper submissions is 1 November 2023.

If not, it is also a great opportunity to know all the news of research in these fields.
For more information, visit the event's webpage: https://www.evostar.org/2024/evomusart/

I'm having fun exploring the very nice javascript library p5play: https://p5play.org/ . It combines the user-friendly graphics of p5js with built-in sprites, collision-detection & a physics engine. Should be good for making math games. Here's a simple flocking sim: https://rajeevraizada.github.io/flocking_p5play/

Code in a Replit here: https://replit.com/@raizada/v12-Boid-test?v=1

https://reddit.com/link/15mhf9d/video/q6lf6j3zk3hb1/player

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Hi, all!

I’m the cofounder of a multipurpose, all-in-one AI app to generate text, images, code, stories, poems, and to analyze image and text, and much more. Sort of like the Swiss Army knife of AI.

It can generate poems, short stories, code, essays, math, and more via GPT4! In addition, it can generate art via stable diffusion v2. On a smaller scale, we have analytical tools that provides text extraction, and a small social environment.

We’re looking for feedback on the functionality, design, and user experience of the app. Check it out below and give me your thoughts:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bright-eye/id1593932475

Hi all! I'm currently writing a short story about ALife. Specifically, I'm interested in wet alife, but I'm open to discussing all other kinds of ALife as well for this story. I was wondering if there is anyone in this group who studies ALife or knows a lot about the field who would be willing to speak to me, for research purposes for this story. You would be completely anonymous, the story is fiction, just want some background on the subject. Thanks!