Life as it could be | Akarsh Kumar on Artificial Life

Akarsh Kumar on searching for artificial life with foundation models. Start from something as simple as Conway's Game of Life: "From this super, super simple world, you run this, you get insane amounts of complexity." In his words: "Instead of hard coding a single simulation, you parameterize a space of simulations." Then: "Plug it into a foundation model, and see what the foundation model thinks about what happened." Figures: ASAL, Akarsh Kumar et al. (MIT, Sakana AI). Full conversation with