Biota's Artificial Life Podcast

This is a talk given primarily to biologists on the Noble Ape Simulation. The academics who don't introduce themselves are Prof. Fred Dyer, Dr. Aaron Wagner and Prof. Robert Pennock.

Celebrating fifteen years of the Noble Ape development, Tom chats with Douglas Rushkoff about how to set up a project like Noble Ape now, how things have changed since Cyberia, simulations, open source and the human versus the project.

Tom welcomes back on Jeffrey Ventrella to discuss a number of ideas.

Tom welcomes back on Dr. Bruce Damer to discuss a number of ideas.

Tom puts out to the community the question of what to do to regather the community.

Tom discribes the loneliness of simulation creation.

Tom talks about the process of developing simulation to try to solicit discussion from other developers.

Anton has built a clock and Tom talks about simulating Sea Lion.

Tom asks if you have something to share?

Anton hit a roadblock with the Moveable Feast Machine due to some GPU compiler issues. Tom has been working on a project called libdeep to answer some interesting questions about how to make software that is useful for a variety of folks. They digress into the Roomba. How good is machine learning and why hasn't artificial life done just as well? What is still yet to be found useful in the field. Anton wants to understand more about the ApeSDK. Tom introduces Ecosim (after the recording Tom provided the source to Anton).