Forscher simulierten das Leben mit der Programmiersprache Brainfuck
https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-simulated-emergence-life
Forscher simulierten das Leben mit der Programmiersprache Brainfuck
https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-simulated-emergence-life
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The article describes a Google AI experiment where researchers simulated the emergence of life from non-living matter. Using a neural network, they created a virtual environment where simple agents interacted and evolved. The experiment showed that complex behaviors and even the appearance of “life-like” properties can emerge from simple rules and interactions within a complex system, potentially offering insights into the origins of life on Earth.
Also, [Brainfuck](https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck) is an actual programming language.
This keeps happening over and over and it’s tiring. Simulations leading to a randomly generated self-replicator are a) not novel and b) not sufficiently life-like. There are SO many challenging constraints on a life-like self-replicator. Each constraint is its own active area of research, and we probably aren’t even aware of most of them.
How is this substantively different from Conway’s Game of life?
I mean, it is „yet to be peer reviewed“. Sounds like an undergrad thesis.
Didn’t Conway demonstrate this a long time ago with, you know, the [Game of Life](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life)?
I’m still more impressed with the project to create [Tetris with the Game of Life](https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-working-game-of-tetris-in-conways-game-of-life).
Game of Life isn’t that exciting by itself, it’s rules are simple and well known. But using it to implement a game was mind boggling.
brainfuck, even if it is an esoteric language, is not useless for this case and using c/c++ would not have had the same effects.
uses 8 characters and is easy to randomize them.
brainkfuck generally uses a different memory space for data than the code, I think they implemented a common space so that the code is overwritten at runtime by the code itself.
(I speak from direct experience as years ago I tried to implement something very similar in brainfuck)