Jeff is giving a keynote at ALIFE 2026. See you in Waterloo!
Good news if you’re still finishing your #ALIFE2026 submission!
⏳ Deadline extended to April 12, 2026 (AoE) — final extension.
📌 Submissions are not anonymized this year.
👉 Details & templates on our website. 2026.alife.org
We are devastated by the unexpected death of Inman Harvey a few days ago. A towering figure in artificial life and evolutionary robotics for 35 years, he was a mentor, inspiration and friend to generations of Artificial Life researchers.
A full obituary will follow.
*** DEADLINE EXTENSION: June 14th, 2026 ***
www.nichele.eu/ALIFE-Agentic/
Will semantic gliders propagate? One cell is initialised with "life finds a way".
Outputs:
t=1: life starts glowing | new life emerges | life blooms
t=15: sunrise brings new hope | nightmares drift softly | new life sprouts eagerly
13 distinct phrases emerge!
Coverage of the NORA (Norwegian AI Research Consortium) annual awards 2026, including my award for AI community building and education 🏆
www.nora.ai/news/2026/no...
Small experiment on "semantic artificial life".
I put small LLMs (Qwen 2.5 0.5B) on a 1D lattice. It is an NCA where update rules are LLMs that receive tokens from left/right neighbors & their previous output and produce new output tokens.
Don't know how often @sethbullock.bsky.social visits here so I wanted to convey his message that our dear friend and ALIFE colleague INMAN HARVEY recently passed away. Follow the link below to Seth's touching post on LinkedIn. #ALIFE
Stefano @stenichele.bsky.social gave a great talk about reimplementing code by Nils Aall Baricelli, the pioneer who ran a self replicating automaton on an early computer while the military wasn't using it at night
A few days ago I heard that Inman Harvey had died quite suddenly. Inman was a central figure within the international Artificial Life research community and along with a few others helped define the r...
