Alex Mordvintsev
@zzznah
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Mad Scientist, DeepDream creator. Designing Self-Organising Systems and Programmable Artificial Life. https://t.co/rntipHzHW3
Joined December 2016
I was so excited when I saw that Neural Cellular Automata had been applied to the @arcprize - do you remember the famous self-repairing Gecko from @zzznah in 2020? I think ALIFE methods are an exciting path forward in AI research! This is @stenichele and Etienne Guichard at
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Imagine you're building something with Lego and the bricks automatically recognize what structure is being build! Introducing Smart Cellular Bricks: Project page: https://t.co/bhMb48lByt PDF: https://t.co/oUwk21JKV5
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We introduce a system in which collections of hundreds of physical 3D cellular bricks, simple modular hardware units without global knowledge, collaboratively infer overall shape class. The collective intelligence algorithm is built on the framework of differentiable Neural
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A butterfly is born 🦋 This is a new type of CA called "MaCE Lenia", by @VassPapas & E Guichard. arXiv paper: https://t.co/uYURjFJYdM They'll have a poster & demo at @ALifeConf, (I will also have a booth nearby). Please come to visit us at Posters + Public Expo (Tue 5-8pm)!
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Next up is Gemeni 2.5 Pro: Very nice organic shape- a phyllotaxis shape. Very fitting! Gemini strikes me as more organic in nature.
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Detailed program of the Special Session "The Distributed Ciphers" @ALifeConf. Special session program also available here: https://t.co/qcwzeCCEyU The entire program of ALIFE 2025 is available on the conference website: https://t.co/jRCSe8E2Uw See you soon in Kyoto 🇯🇵
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🧬🦠🧪Could you help me find a puzzle game I played a few years ago and forgot it's name? It was tiny and web-based, I guess on someone's personal website. Colorful particles were floating and colliding in 2D space and reacting (binding, unbinding or changing colors) according to
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Great to see my friend and colleague @zzznah's pioneering work on neural cellular automata recognized in Quanta Magazine. Special thanks to @gmusser for the feature.
Imagine a simple building block that will self-assemble into any shape you want. The possibilities for such a technology would be boundless. Digital “neural cellular automata” work in this way. @gmusser reports on how they were created and how they work:
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♥️ simplicity
Our resident wizard rxi just released what may be the world’s simplest JSON parser. 150 lines of C. https://t.co/dcUKEMHS9b
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New #preprint - @BeneHartl @LPiolopez
https://t.co/OTC3cLq0BY "Neural cellular automata: applications to biology and beyond classical AI"
arxiv.org
Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) represent a powerful framework for modeling biological self-organization, extending classical rule-based systems with trainable, differentiable (or evolvable) update...
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distill.pub
Neural Cellular Automata learn to generate textures, exhibiting surprising properties.
Even if disturbed, the textures made by building blocks called neural cellular automata have the ability to heal themselves. By understanding how simple components form complex systems, scientists could theoretically coax bodies to regenerate missing limbs.
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Imagine a simple building block that will self-assemble into any shape you want. The possibilities for such a technology would be boundless. Digital “neural cellular automata” work in this way. @gmusser reports on how they were created and how they work:
quantamagazine.org
In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.
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The more I understand how success and popularity works the more I realize that there are probably millions of Einsteins dying in poverty every year.
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Playing with the Poincare disc and a laser cutter. Shall they become cookies? 🍪
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