The Bibites at ALIFE2020 - Artificial Life Conference

This is a talk I gave at the ALIFE2020 Conference on July 14 2020.
Synopsis:
The Bibites is an artificial ecosystem simulation using evolutionary algorithms to evolve both physical and behavioral components of the agents, implemented through biological reproduction.
As Alife projects tend to be one-shots, released at once and then left aside, it's interesting to ask What can be gained from continuing a project and building a community around it.
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[@jeanneboudreau1053]

Very interesting talk! I think you can be proud of yourself. Not easy to do what you're doing with a full time job

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Thanks ! Indeed it's a hard (and some would say dangerous) balancing act, but it's definitely worth it :)

[@vdwhite687]

Love the concept, and whatever improves the AI the farthest so maybe they start to learn how to grow their own food, or just different bibites like other species and get say, 'milk' from them or 'eggs' and slowly letting them learn the farthest you can like that would be cool

[@Alche_mist]

Seeing this: Have you considered running the simulation on a server with drawing to the website for a long time, as a form of "slow TV" where people would be able to tune in and look at the situation? Ideally with the possibility to zoom around and check individual Bibtes' status and brains, but without the movement possibility (to let the simulation run uninterrupted)? That way, everyone would be able to see the situation developed after a _long_ time (like, months-running simulation). EDIT: Ideally with a timer to see for how long is the simulation running.

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

It's a plan of mine! But it's still some time away. I would have to purchase/rent a server first and program the website, etc. Quite some work ahah! But I agree that it would/will be incredibly cool 😁

[@Alche_mist]

@@TheBibitesDigitalLife Looking forward to that point. Sadly, I'm too much of a beginner in coding (and not even in web, ha!) to help.

[@jamie7472]

Its really cool that your projects receiving renown. I'm excited to see what the future continues to have in store for the bibites.

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Me too! Thank you so much :)

[@anthraxcrab3238]

I think I might be the only guy who saw your most recent video, and actually came back to watch this

[@Session1052]

amazing work, really good points all the way through! I can't wait to see more!

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

thank you so much !

[@mk1interactive944]

YES, MORE CONTENT!

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

YES CAPORAL!

[@neuronwave]

Brilliant. Just great to see applied style projects being so well received. More of it is needed.

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Thanks! I'm working on it 😎

[@quasar1437]

It would be great if creatures with the help of mutations can generate new pixels in their body (cells) that allow them to perform other functions, for example, pixels that make hunting easier.

[@rubenhillier770]

Thats a good idea

[@jnuck6177]

YEAHHH HES BACK!

[@maraoz]

great talk! amazing approach to research man, congrats :)

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Thanks ! I hope to be able to do more for "traditional" research in the future, maybe even publish ? We'll see

[@ashshay5223]

I love this project you’re doing! Maybe you could find a way to motivate the bibites to become territorial. If you added more things to make each area more unique, they’d be able to differentiate places more, and might start staying in certain areas more. There’s probably something that would make this idea not work but it’s just a thought

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

That's the plan! Eventually I'll get to my plan of adding biomes and evolving plants to the simulation, it'll get a lot more lively in there :o

[@grimtin10]

yay :) also brb gonna watch a lot of bibites

[@theogungabunga2497]

hell yeah

[@niggisgaming1637]

He's backkk

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

I never left 😷... just slow mo

[@judashicks106]

Keep up the good work

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Thanks, will do!

[@LOTFI__TECH]

Great project and great job you've made . i'm new in programming but i've managed to make a sand simulation up to 8000 pixels maybe i can make something like you did .

[@the_cheese_cultist]

I kinda feel bad that I couldn't be in the stream answering questions lol Great video

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Next time!

[@KightCheesAcademy]

Love it not a lot of people make video games baced on evolution.

[@picpic7220]

Nice !

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

✌

[@bibliusz777]

Can you do more videos on how such simulations work (what systems are there and how they interact)?

[@jemy044]

16:00 : what is the thing pulsing and moving that we can see? Also: cool, you're back!

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Oh no ! You spotted it ! Those are virion particles (carrying viruses)

[@jemy044]

@@TheBibitesDigitalLife How peculiar! Now bibites can be infected!

[@recinbersvoice8802]

Oh, I thought it was one of the pheromones

[@chesslover8491]

Great talk. Will you be going to more conferences?

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Will try !

[@fabiansvraka7068]

Waiitt

[@luigisgl2639]

Est-ce que le réseau de neurones d'un bibite peut évoluer de telle sorte qu'il devienne récurent (RNN) ? ça permettrait aux bibites d'avoir une mémoire.

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Certains neurones de type "latch" peuvent évoluer. Ce qui revient à un genre de mémoire, qui peut autant être long terme que court terme selon son utilisation

[@luvibeme1657]

Try to put bibites in some video game console( like Nintendo switch)

[@snowmix4039]

It isnt that easy

[@jannikheidemann3805]

That's a waste of time. Console plebs are probably less interested.

[@snowmix4039]

@@jannikheidemann3805 I would like to have it but Finnkeboy has got a point

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

Cross-console Bibites for President 2024

[@lordkalem]

dude, its been 2 freaking years, the neural editor is WAY over due. Its basically just a gold fish simulator without it. and there are WAY better gold fish sims out there that Id rather spend my time and processing power on.

[@billyjoe2010]

First

[@TheBibitesDigitalLife]

What a chad 😯

[@almightyf12]

@@TheBibitesDigitalLife Your the epic chad 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎