The Artificial Life Route To Artificial Intelligence

Author : Luc Steels,Rodney Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351001861

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The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence by Luc Steels,Rodney Brooks Pdf

Originally published in 1995, this volume is the direct result of a conference in which a number of leading researchers from the fields of artificial intelligence and biology gathered to examine whether there was any ground to assume that a new AI paradigm was forming itself and what the essential ingredients of this new paradigm were. A great deal of scepsis is justified when researchers, particularly in the cognitive sciences, talk about a new paradigm. Shifts in paradigm mean not only new ideas but also shifts in what constitutes good problems, what counts as a result, the experimental practice to validate results, and the technological tools needed to do research. Due to the complexity of the subject matter, paradigms abound in the cognitive sciences -- connectionism being the most prominent newcomer in the mid-1980s. This workshop group was brought together in order to clarify the common ground, see what had been achieved so far, and examine in which way the research could move further. This volume is a reflection of this important meeting. It contains contributions which were distributed before the workshop but then substantially broadened and revised to reflect the workshop discussions and more recent technical work. Written in polemic form, sometimes criticizing the work done thus far within the new paradigm, this collection includes research program descriptions, technical contributions, and position papers.

Author : Christopher G. Langton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262621126

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Artificial Life by Christopher G. Langton Pdf

This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life.

Author : Ed Rietman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0830641505

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Creating Artificial Life by Ed Rietman Pdf

The first truly hands-on study of artificial life and its potential for synthesization by computer. Explores several definitions of life, and applies these widely divergent scientific viewpoints to such emerging fields as artificial intelligence, robotics, theoretical biology, cellular automata, and neural networks. Takes a provocative look at the future of artificial life and its implications for 21st century society. A 3.5" disk is included!

Author : Harald Schaub,Frank Detje,Ulrike Brüggermann
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015059318199

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The Logic of Artificial Life by Harald Schaub,Frank Detje,Ulrike Brüggermann Pdf

Artificial Life is a still growing interdisciplinary research field integrating a variety of different theoretical foundations, methodological positions, applications and disciplines. Main focus of this science is to abstract and to synthesize the essential features and dynamics of living systems in order to create artificial, lifelike systems. On a regular basis and from 1995 on the German Workshop on Artificial Life is organized. Like previous workshops the 6th German Workshop on Artificial Life in 2004 provided the opportunity for scientists from a broad spectrum of research areas to get in touch with their colleagues from different disciplines, to learn from one another about questions of mutual interest and to have a forum for scientists who would like to get into contact with the Artificial Life community. Contributions to the GWAL 2004 result from research efforts from (and may be of interest to) biology, physics, information and computer science, chemistry, mathematics, psychology, sociology, philosophy, robotics, socionics and much more.

Author : Phil Husbands,Inman Harvey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262581574

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Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life by Phil Husbands,Inman Harvey Pdf

Topics include self-organization, the origins of life, natural selection, evolutionary computation, neural networks, communication, artificial worlds, software agents, philosophical issues in artificial life, ethical problems, and learning and development. Researchers in artificial life attempt to use the physical representation of lifelike phenomena to understand the organizational principles underlying the dynamics of living systems. The goal of the 1997 European Conference on Artificial Life is to provoke new understandings of the relationships between the natural and the artificial. Topics include self-organization, the origins of life, natural selection, evolutionary computation, neural networks, communication, artificial worlds, software agents, philosophical issues in artificial life, ethical problems, and learning and development.

Author : Steven Levy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0679743898

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Artificial Life by Steven Levy Pdf

This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS. What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico. But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work. Artificial Life examines its subject's dizzying philosophical implications: Is a self-replicating computer program any less alive than a flu virus? Are carbon-and-water-based entities merely part of the continuum of living things? And is it possible that one day "a-life" will look back at human beings and dismiss us as an evolutionary way station -- or, worse still, a dead end?

Author : Stefan Helmreich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780520208001

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Silicon Second Nature by Stefan Helmreich Pdf

Looks at the emerging field of artificial life - the product of imagination - a mix of biology, mythology and technology.

Author : Sarah Kember
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Artificial life
ISBN : 0415240271

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Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life by Sarah Kember Pdf

Examining the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of artificial life.

Author : Ronald Chrisley,Sander Begeer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0415193346

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Artificial Intelligence by Ronald Chrisley,Sander Begeer Pdf

Author : Marco Villani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031574306

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Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation by Marco Villani Pdf

Author : Margaret A. Boden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39076001757207

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The Philosophy of Artificial Life by Margaret A. Boden Pdf

This new volume in the acclaimed Oxford Readings in Philosophy series offers a selection of the most important philosophical work being done in the new and fast-growing interdisciplinary area of artificial life. Artificial life research seeks to synthesize the characteristics of life by artificial means, particularly employing computer technology. The essays here explore such fascinating themes as the nature of life, the relation between life and mind, and the limits of technology.

Author : Jozef Kelemen,Petr Sosik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540448112

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Advances in Artificial Life by Jozef Kelemen,Petr Sosik Pdf

Why is the question of the di?erence between living and non-living matter - tellectually so attractive to the man of the West? Where are our dreams about our own ability to understand this di?erence and to overcome it using the ?rmly established technologies rooted? Where are, for instance, the cultural roots of the enterprises covered nowadays by the discipline of Arti?cial Life? Cont- plating such questions, one of us has recognized [6] the existence of the eternal dream of the man of the West expressed, for example, in the Old Testament as follows: . . . the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being (Genesis, 2. 7). This is the dream about the workmanlike act of the creation of Adam from clay, about the creation of life from something non-living, and the con?dence in the magic power of technologies. How has this dream developed and been converted into a reality, and how does it determine our present-day activities in science and technology? What is this con?dence rooted in? Then God said: “Let us make man in our image. . . ” (Genesis, 1. 26). Man believes in his own ability to repeat the Creator’s acts, to change ideas into real things, because he believes he is godlike. This con?dence is – using the trendy Dawkins’ term – perhaps the most important cultural meme of the West.

Author : John Johnston
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 9780262101264

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The Allure of Machinic Life by John Johnston Pdf

An account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes both the similarities and the differences among these sciences in actualizing life.The Allure of Machinic Life

Author : Mark A. Bedau,John S. McCaskill,Norman H. Packard,Steen Rasmussen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 026252290X

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Artificial Life VII by Mark A. Bedau,John S. McCaskill,Norman H. Packard,Steen Rasmussen Pdf

The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules—for example, how the simple interactions between ants and their environment lead to complex trail-following behavior. An understanding of such relationships in particular systems can suggest novel solutions to complex real-world problems such as disease prevention, stock-market prediction, and data mining on the Internet. Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.

Author : Federico Moran
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540594965

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Advances in Artificial Life by Federico Moran Pdf

This volume contains 71 revised refereed papers, including seven invited surveys, presented during the Third European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL '95, held in Granada, Spain in June 1995. Originally AL was concerned with applying biologically inspired solutions to technology and with examining computational expertise in order to reproduce and understand life processes. Despite its short history, AL now is becoming a mature scientific field. The volume reports the state of the art in this exciting area of research; there are sections on foundations and epistemology, origins of life and evolution, adaptive and cognitive systems, artificial worlds, robotics and emulation of animal behavior, societies and collective behavior, biocomputing, and applications and common tools.