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Submission + - What if Real AI will be Born, not Built (arbornet.org) 3

Submitted by brilanon
brilanon writes: A few years old now and approaching its second major version, Critterding is an artificial-life lab and physics sandbox where robotic "critters" evolve locomotion, vision and behaviours like fighting and foraging. It's a great way to teach yourself about evolution and neural nets, both of which I think are mind-expanding to understand.

Well, I forked Critterding at the end of 2009 to make a richer evolver called telepathic-critterdrug. There are numerous small new features and fixes but most importantly, I added five types of mind-altering drugs for them to distinguish from food, in the hopes that they would develop a ritual diet including them like ancient man, use them for utility like by favouring stimulants for faster foraging, or have an accelerated rise to language, art and religious feeling by dint of occasional intoxication.

So I have shown that evolved software can have its performance improved by being put on speed. A pretty amazing result. But so that I'd have a window into their creativity, I added a digital backstore or canvas that they evolve connections into, and move a pen around, in addition to having morphic fields calculated there automatically. So they can evolve a form of cybernetic telepathy, and collaborate on a true-colour animation 1024 frames long, while eating psychedelics, opiates and other mood-modifiers. You can then view this animation a number of ways

It's a toy, but it evolves resilient bio-inspired neuro-controllers that do homing and self-preservation. So if you run it long enough, maybe the Army shows up. Happy hacking!
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Submission + - Robotic Telepaths Select Between Food and Drugs, D (arbornet.org)

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brilanon writes: "So we have an evolution lab called Critterding where robotic shapes evolve to locomote and seek food using an eye, in a simple physics sandbox. Neural nets are designed by natural selection to respond to vision and move around in a competition to get food the fastest. No scores are kept, the critters' only goal is to reproduce and propagate their design. In this way you can slowly grow intelligent software controllers for your robots, resilient homing programs that socialize and paint, on a telepathic digital backstore that interconnects their brains like Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields.

Sheldrake is a contemporary of Terence McKenna whose ideas about the role of drug foods in the emergence of language, spirituality and art influenced my decision to make critterdrug significantly. My program implements some ideas of both thinkers on evolution and biology. So it stands apart, but Critterding has moved on too and is worth trying on its own. Good luck, flamoot"

Submission + - New Species to Try for Critterdrug, Consciousness (arbornet.org)

Submitted by brilanon
brilanon writes: Critterdrug is an evolving robot simulator in physics, with eyesight, that just turned two years old. I've uploaded a new species today, to try in a sandbox, which demonstrate eyesight, socialization, homing and various responses to food, particles, danger and the four types of drugs.

Source is available for Linux and Windows binaries are provided for a recent version at the web page for Critterdrug.

Full disclosure: Critterdrug is a port of a Belgian A-Life lab called Critterding
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I think micro blogging is the gayest thing on earth. SMS is longer than a twitter message. Some of us have actual blogging to do

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