toucheatout  2006-03-15 19:29  alife  

Basic postulates

Artificial life (short form alife) is a field of AI is based on the metaphor of living systems. As such, the inspiration and methods strongly come from life, should it be computer vision, should it be evolving a solution with genetic algorithms or genetic programming (evolving a program instead of a solution), aso.

It starts with the observation that life achieved exceptionnal results by itself, far beyond the perceived potential of traditional computer science and traditional artificial intelligence.

Biological inspiration samples

Evolutionary techniques

Robotics