[jekude]

> Artificial life fizzled as a meta discipline

I've wondered for a while if Artificial Life is in its own winter, waiting for someone to apply the lessons of scale we learned from neural nets.

[danschuller]

If you want to follow someone playing with this, there's Steve Grand, who wrote the original creatures game and kickstarted something a bit more ambitious https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1508284443/grandroids-r...

[falcor84]

There was this AI civilization approach shared here a couple of weeks ago, that I think is an interesting move in this direction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42035319

[Animats]

We're seeing artificial life come back as non-player characters in video games.