Biota's Artificial Life Podcast

This is one of the last BiotaCasts, the feed is being moved to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LastMonkeyStanding

This is one of the last BiotaCasts, the feed is being moved to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LastMonkeyStanding

Tom catches up with Dr. Imy Khan.

Tom welcomes back Imy Khan to talk about his time in Japan.

Tom welcomes back Steve Grand to talk about Grandroids amongst other things.

Tom welcomes back Imy Khan to talk about music and roleplaying games.

Tom welcomes on Jeffrey Ventrella to talk about their various projects.

Tom welcomes on Imy Khan to talk about their various projects.

This is a talk given primarily to biologists on the Noble Ape Simulation. The academics who don't introduce themselves are Prof. Fred Dyer, Dr. Aaron Wagner and Prof. Robert Pennock.

Celebrating fifteen years of the Noble Ape development, Tom chats with Douglas Rushkoff about how to set up a project like Noble Ape now, how things have changed since Cyberia, simulations, open source and the human versus the project.

Tom welcomes back on Jeffrey Ventrella to discuss a number of ideas.

Tom welcomes back on Dr. Bruce Damer to discuss a number of ideas.

Tom puts out to the community the question of what to do to regather the community.

Tom discribes the loneliness of simulation creation.

Tom talks about the process of developing simulation to try to solicit discussion from other developers.

Anton has built a clock and Tom talks about simulating Sea Lion.

Tom asks if you have something to share?

Anton hit a roadblock with the Moveable Feast Machine due to some GPU compiler issues. Tom has been working on a project called libdeep to answer some interesting questions about how to make software that is useful for a variety of folks. They digress into the Roomba. How good is machine learning and why hasn't artificial life done just as well? What is still yet to be found useful in the field. Anton wants to understand more about the ApeSDK. Tom introduces Ecosim (after the recording Tom provided the source to Anton).

Tom provides a footnote to Biota.

Anton has been porting Movable Feast Machine to the GPU. They discuss work waivers. Tom discusses what an iPhone app means. How about Patreon? Anton and Tom finish the podcast talking about Kickstarters too.

Tom welcomes back on Dr. Bruce Damer. Tom asks for Bruce's thoughts on the Wikipedia situation. Bruce talks about the Biota Institute in understanding the origin of life and a new company, Epsilonics. They discuss Tom Ray's criticism of artificial life for doing open ended simulation. What has Deepak Chopra provided in feedback to Bruce? Tom raises the idea that emergent complexity is the panacea for the media-centric world. Bruce talks about his responsibility to the issues impacting the planet.

Gerald de Jong has been in and out of creating simulations over the past eight years but he's returned to work on Galapagotchi. Tom tries very hard to create distinctions between springs and tensegrity structures but Gerald isn't having any of it. Gerald gives a definition of Galapagotchi. How have Gerald's thoughts changed about artificial life in the past eight years? What's the distinction between water and land?

Tom welcomes on Professor David Ackley who introduces his interests in artificial life and how he developed Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning. Can this work map back into biology? What does it take to get this kind of cross disciplinary collaboration? Tom asks about Professor Ackley's motivation to put so much information on YouTube. How is this different to publicly accessible papers? Does it bring students to the field? Professor Ackley talks about the vision of a new computer architecture: the Moveable Feast Machine. Tom asks about Anton's work with a GPU-based Moveable Feast Machine. Is there a possibility to get slightly more complex artificial life running on the Moveable Feast Machine? Listen in to find out.

Anton returns to talk about Lenia https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia.html, David H. Ackley's Movable Feast Machine https://movablefeastmachine.org. Tom and Anton do a deep dive into the many flavors of parallelism Tom has used with Noble Ape. Anton also likes GPU programming. If you would like to be on a Biota podcast, please get in contact with Tom - barbalet at the email address noted.

Tom Barbalet welcomes back Jeffrey Ventrella to talk about his ongoing projects, GenePool and Wiggle Planet, with longtime co-developer, Brian Dodd. They talk about open source and Jeffrey's other projects: a book on fractal curves and taking artificial life to the traditional art world.

Tom Barbalet welcomes back Tim Taylor to talk about how we communicate on the field of artificial life. They also discuss Tim's ideas on simulation as a service and Tim's new book on self-replicating machine discussions through history.

Tom Barbalet talks with Anton Mikhailov on a variety of topics. Will they continue the podcast after the meeting? Time will tell.

Tom Barbalet talks with Anton Mikhailov about his bee simulation, moving it open source and some of the historical pitfalls in making artificial life your day job. If you would like to ask further questions and topics for Anton and Tom, please email barbalet at gmail dot com. We'd really appreciate the topics and feedback.

Tom discusses the background and potential of Noble Ape in the cloud with JSON. http://www.longfunk.com/archive.html#51

Noble Ape banter is a real luxury. http://www.longfunk.com/archive.html#45

Tom Barbalet is interested in restarting the podcast but he needs your help. barbalet at gmail dot com for more!

The Biota Podcast's home has moved to http://biotacast.org/

Tom Barbalet, the creator of Noble Ape, talks about what he's working on at 3am.

Tom introduces the podcast by discussing his many podcasts and what he has learnt from all these recording. To subscribe go to http://www.longfunk.com/

Originally intended for Bruce's Levity Zone podcast, the following recording seemed a better fit for those who were artificial life savvy. Bruce concludes the conversation with how he may be doing something with deep computation in the future after all.'

Tom Barbalet presents a new project using Noble Ape to provide analysis of murder crimes with agent and language simulation.

Tom starts the discussion talking about the Forensics Science book. http://www.meetup.com/Conscious-in-the-Cloud/events/218785595/ is the meet-up for Tom's talk. What about the philosophy of the deteriorating mind? Don't look for qualia in the trees in Australia, they are in the National University. Hey hey hey, it's Folk Ethics. They digress into some discussion of race and homelessness.

Liz and Tom start discussing an improved sound and recovered health. Liz plugs her next book project and Tom talks about his mis-spent yoof. Tom poses a metaphysics problem from simulation. They digress into Kant. Science fiction provide mixed blessings as does virtual reality. They explore applied philosophy and assistants versus publicists.

Tom Barbalet and Liz Swan launch a pilot podcast exploring what happened to artificial life?

Reese Jones, Tom Barbalet and a number of other folk provide a discussion around what is consciousness in the context of the internet and cloud computing.

With the number of listeners to this podcast, Tom makes a plea for content in 2014. What would you like to hear? Would you like to submit audio? Please get in contact (tom at nobleape dot com)

Dr. Bruce Damer presents a talk on the movement from the EvoGrid to the Genesis Engine.

Tom Barbalet presents the final talk at Conscious in the Cloud in response to the prior Conscious in the Cloud talk with Larry Yaeger.

Tom Barbalet brings the C-Realm's KMO and Polyworld's Larry Yaeger together to discuss artificial life in the cloud. The audience presents questions to the three participants and the ethics of artificial life in the cloud is explored.

Three Toms get together to discuss Reddit and artificial life, two of the Toms introduce their backgrounds, Tom Barbalet answers questions from Reddit on Noble Ape and they talk about how to create a substantial artificial life project with integrity.

Tom chats Stephan Rafler on Smoothlife: a cellular automata simulation with smooth time and space.

Tom chats with Bruce about the EvoGrid, the ChemoGrid and Genesis engines.

Tom Barbalet chats with Prof. Roy Plotnick about his work and his use of artificial life. They talk about more complex agent algorithms and what more Roy would like to see from the community.

Tom Barbalet presents the hobbyist get-to-gether at the ALIFE XIII conference. (This is noise reduced but otherwise unedited audio.)

Tom Barbalet presents teaching artificial life for industry. Please note this talk was particularly poorly attended and thus had to be cut short. If you haven't heard the first workshop's audio on Artificial Life in Industry please listen to it first. Similarly if you are interested in the discussion following on Noble Ape, please check out the Ape Reality podcast, http://www.nobleape.com/reality/ (This is noise reduced but otherwise unedited audio.)