FLOWERS is offering Master's internships! Jeremy Perez and I are supervising a project combining artificial life and cultural evolution. We are also offering a position continuing the team's research on discovering sensimotor agency in Lenia. Check all the topics below! flowers.inria.fr/jobs/

Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾 An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA ! If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper ! A 🧵

Introducing ASAL: Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models Blog: sakana.ai/asal/ We propose a new method called Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL) which uses foundation models to automate the discovery of the most interesting and open-ended artificial lifeforms!