Artificial life, also known as alife or a-life, is the study of life through the use of human-made analogs of living systems. Computer scientist Christopher Langton coined the term in the late 1980s when he held the first "International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems" (otherwise known as Artificial Life I) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1987. Artificial life - Nature of the field. Although the study of artificial life does have some significant overlap w ...

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• Artificial life - Nature of the field
• Artificial life - History and contributions
• Artificial life - Pre-computer
• Artificial life - 1950s-1970s
• Artificial life - 1970s-1980s
• Artificial life - Open problems in AL
• Artificial life - Digital Organism Simulators

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Artificial life - Pre-computer. A few inventions of the pre-digital era were early heralds of humankind's fascination with artificial life. Most famous was an artificial duck, with thousands of moving parts, created by Jacques de Vaucanson. The duck could reportedly eat and digest, drink, quack, and splash in a pool. It was exhibited all over Europe until it fell into disrepair. [1 ...

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Artificial life, Artificial life - Nature of the field, Artificial life - History and contributions, Artificial life - Pre-computer, Artificial life - 1950s-1970s, Artificial life - 1970s-1980s, Artificial life - Open problems in AL, Artificial life - Digital Organism Simulators

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Artificial life - Pre-computer. A few inventions of the pre-digital era were early heralds of humankind's fascination with artificial life. Most famous was an artificial duck, with thousands of moving parts, created by Jacques de Vaucanson. The duck could reportedly eat and digest, drink, quack, and splash in a pool. It was exhibited all over Europe until it fell into disrepair. [1 ...

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Artificial life, Artificial life - Nature of the field, Artificial life - History and contributions, Artificial life - Pre-computer, Artificial life - 1950s-1970s, Artificial life - 1970s-1980s, Artificial life - 2000s, Artificial life - Open problems in AL, Artificial life - Digital Organism Simulators

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Although the study of artificial life does have some significant overlap with the study of artificial intelligence (AI), the two fields are very distinct in their history and approach. Organized AI research began early in the history of digital computers, and was often characterized in those years by a "top-down" approach based on complicated networks of rules. Students of alife did not have an organized field at all until the 1980s, and often worked in isolation, unaware of others doing similar work. Where they concerned themselves with intelligence at all, researchers tended to ...

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Artificial life, Artificial life - Nature of the field, Artificial life - History and contributions, Artificial life - Pre-computer, Artificial life - 1950s-1970s, Artificial life - 1970s-1980s, Artificial life - Open problems in AL, Artificial life - Digital Organism Simulators

Read more here: » Artificial life: Encyclopedia II - Artificial life - Nature of the field

Although the study of artificial life does have some significant overlap with the study of artificial intelligence (AI), the two fields are very distinct in their history and approach. Organized AI research began early in the history of digital computers, and was often characterized in those years by a "top-down" approach based on complicated networks of rules. Students of alife did not have an organized field at all until the 1980s, and often worked in isolation, unaware of others doing similar work. Where they concerned themselves with intelligence at all, researchers tended to ...

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Artificial life, Artificial life - Nature of the field, Artificial life - History and contributions, Artificial life - Pre-computer, Artificial life - 1950s-1970s, Artificial life - 1970s-1980s, Artificial life - 2000s, Artificial life - Open problems in AL, Artificial life - Digital Organism Simulators

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