Biota's Artificial Life Podcast

May 06 2023 204 ep. 872
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Tom Barbalet interviews artificial life developers about their previous, current and future development and artificial life theorists about the history and direction of artificial life

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Biota Lost Recording: Noble Ape Seminar at MSU [July 27, 2012]

May 06 2023 61 mins  
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.

Biota Flashback: Douglas Rushkoff [July 15, 2011]

May 05 2023 53 mins  
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.

Biota Special: A New Philosophy of the Mind with Jeffrey Ventrella [April 30, 2023]

Apr 30 2023 38 mins  
Tom welcomes back on Jeffrey Ventrella to discuss a number of ideas.

Biota Special: A New Biota with Bruce Damer [April 22, 2023]

Apr 22 2023 46 mins  
Tom welcomes back on Dr. Bruce Damer to discuss a number of ideas.

Post-Biota: Where Now? [November 6, 2022]

Nov 06 2022 5 mins  
Tom puts out to the community the question of what to do to regather the community.

Simulcast. The Loneliness Of Simulation Creation [October 30, 2022]

Oct 30 2022 7 mins  
Tom discribes the loneliness of simulation creation.

Post-Biota: ApeSDK on Thunder [October 4, 2022]

Oct 04 2022 12 mins  
Tom talks about the process of developing simulation to try to solicit discussion from other developers.

Chat with Anton Mikhailov [May 21, 2022]

May 21 2022 53 mins  
Anton has built a clock and Tom talks about simulating Sea Lion.

Hello World [April 24, 2022]

Apr 24 2022 5 mins  
Tom asks if you have something to share?

Anti-Peacocking [January 21, 2020]

Jan 21 2020 54 mins  
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