From worms to general intelligence?
A Twitter friend working in artificial intelligence clued me into this cool open source project that’s just getting going.
Stephen Larson has a talk on Evolving AI: Lt. Data will be Born from Artificial Worms, you can watch the talk on YouTube.. There is a virtual worm project on Caltech
The general idea is to start with a digital form of a simple life form and evolve it into a general intelligence much as we have evolved from simple origins. Unlike the real world the computer can run through millions of evolutions in a very short time.
An open source project openworm has been started. You’ll find source code and demos there.
To bring you up to speed on worms you’ll want to dig through C. Elegans II an online textbook on C. elegans.
Also you’ll want to dig into WebGL which is used to create the 3D world demos.
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