Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
166,668
result(s) for
"Artificial life"
Sort by:
Astrolinguistics : design of a linguistic system for interstellar communication based on logic
In linguistics, one of the main areas of modern research involves the capabilities and possibilities of there being a \"lingua cosmica,\" a LINCOS, a universal language that could be used to communicate with non-human intelligences. This book, touches on the area of the development and use of a \"lingua universalis\" for interstellar communication, but it also presents concepts that cover a broad area of linguistics. Chomsky's paradigm on universal properties of natural languages, for a long time a leading general theory of natural languages, includes the strong assumption that humans are born with some kind of universals stored in their brains. Are there universals of this kind of language used by intelligent beings and societies elsewhere in the universe? We do not know whether such languages exist. It seems to be impossible to determine, simply because the universe is too large for an exhaustive search. Even verification will be hard to obtain, without quite a bit of luck. This book uses astrolinguistic principles in message construction and is helpful in clarifying and giving perspective to discussions on existential questions such as these.
Book
PCE simulation toolkit: a platform for perceptual crossing experiment research
The Perceptual Crossing Experiment (PCE) has been the object of study for over a decade, and aims at explaining how we perceive, interact with, and understand each other in real-time. In addition to human participant studies, a number of computational models have investigated how virtual agents can solve this task. However, the set of implementation choices that has been explored to date is rather limited, and the large number of variables that can be used make it very difficult to replicate the results. The main objective of this paper is to describe the PCE Simulation Toolkit we have developed and published as an open-source repository on GitHub. We hope that this effort will help make future PCE simulation results reproducible and advance research in the understanding of possible behaviors in this experimental paradigm. At the end of this paper, we present two case studies of evolved agents that demonstrate how parameter choices affect the simulations.
Journal Article
R.U.R. and the vision of artificial life
\"A new translation of Karel Capek's 1920 play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), with essays from contemporary writers and scientists\"-- Provided by publisher.
BOOK
Emergence Simulation of Biological Cell-like Shapes Satisfying the Conditions of Life Using a Lattice-Type Multiset Chemical Model
Although numerous reports using methods such as molecular dynamics, cellular automata, and artificial chemistry have clarified the process connecting non-life and life on protocell simulations, none of the models could simultaneously explain the emergence of cell shape, continuous self-replication, and replication control solely from molecular reactions and diffusion. Herein, we developed a model to generate all three conditions, except evolution ability, from hypothetical chains of chemical and molecular polymerization reactions. The present model considers a 2D lattice cell space, where virtual molecules are placed in each cell, and molecular reactions in each cell are based on a multiset rewriting rule, indicating stochastic transition of molecular species. The reaction paths of virtual molecules were implemented by replacing the rules of cellular automata that generate Turing patterns with molecular reactions. The emergence of a cell-like form with all three conditions except evolution ability was modeled and demonstrated using only molecular diffusion, reaction, and polymerization for modeling the chemical reactions of 15 types of molecules and 2 types of polymerized molecules. Furthermore, controlling self-replication is possible by changing the initial arrangement of a specific molecule. In summary, the present model is capable of investigating and refining existing hypotheses on the emergence of life.
Journal Article
Survey on cloud model based similarity measure of uncertain concepts
It is a basic task to measure the similarity between two uncertain concepts in many real-life artificial intelligence applications, such as image retrieval, collaborative filtering, public opinion guidance, and so on. As an important cognitive computing model, cloud model has been used in many fields of artificial intelligence. It can realise the bidirectional cognitive transformation between qualitative concept and quantitative data based on the theory of probability and fuzzy set. The similarity measure of two uncertain concepts is a fundamental issue in cloud model theory. Popular similarity measure methods of cloud model are surveyed in this study. Their limitations are analysed in detail. Some related future research topics are proposed.
Journal Article
Surface detail
When sex slave Lededje Y'breq is murdered by a politician on the planet Sichult, the artificial intelligence running one of the Culture's immense starships resurrects her so she can seek revenge. Meanwhile, the Culture is uneasily watching the conflict over whether to preserve virtual Hells for the souls of \"sinners\" or give them the release of death.
Book
Alien Agency
InAlien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories ofart in the making. Salter examines three works in which the materials of art -- the \"stuff of the world\" -- behave and perform in ways beyond the creator's intent, becoming unknown, surprising, alien. Studying these works -- all three deeply embroiled in and enabled by science and technology -- allows him to focus on practice through the experiential and affective elements of creation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic observation and on his own experience as an artist, Salter investigates how researcher-creators organize the conditions for these experimental, performative assemblages -- assemblages that sidestep dichotomies between subjects and objects, human and nonhuman, mind and body, knowing and experiencing.Salter reports on the sound artists Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger (O+A) and their efforts to capture and then project unnoticed urban sounds; tracks the multi-year project TEMA (Tissue Engineered Muscle Actuators) at the art research lab SymbioticA and its construction of a hybrid \"semi-living\" machine from specially grown mouse muscle cells; and describes a research-creation project (which he himself initiated) that uses light, vibration, sound, smell, and other sensory stimuli to enable audiences to experience other cultures' \"ways of sensing.\" Combining theory, diary, history, and ethnography, Salter also explores a broader question: How do new things emerge into the world and what do they do?
eBook
Gods and Robots : myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology
Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
Book
A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms
Living systems are more robust, diverse, complex, and supportive of human life than any technology yet created. However, our ability to create novel lifeforms is currently limited to varying existing organisms or bioengineering organoids in vitro. Here we show a scalable pipeline for creating functional novel lifeforms: AI methods automatically design diverse candidate lifeforms in silico to perform some desired function, and transferable designs are then created using a cell-based construction toolkit to realize living systems with the predicted behaviors. Although some steps in this pipeline still require manual intervention, complete automation in future would pave the way to designing and deploying unique, bespoke living systems for a wide range of functions.
Journal Article