http://www.kybernetica.com/ Artificial Life Science, Cybernetics, AI and Robotics en 2010-09-02T12:37:23+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/vida_130_art_artificial_life_competition_australian_network_-archive.html [Australian Network for Art and Technology] VIDA 13.0 will help to fund artistic ALife projects that have not yet been produced. This is aimed at citizens or residents of Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

]]> Entry admin 2010-09-02T12:37:23+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/health_level_living_will_and_durable_power_of_attorney_for_health_-archive.html [health level] The Living Will is helpful as a backup document: In the eventthat the client enters an irreversible coma and the health careagents designated in the Health Care Power of Attorney aredeceased or unloadable, the Living Will sets forth the desiresof the client concerning his/her death-bed treatment which maybe followed by attending physicians. The law provides that tothe extent that a Durable Power of Attorney conflicts with aLiving Will, the Health Care Power of Attorney controls.

]]> Entry admin 2010-09-02T12:34:38+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/scientists_create_artificial_life_natural_alternative_choices-archive.html [Natural Alternative Choices] Scientists in the USA today announced they have created the world’s first synthetic living cell. The team of scientists successfully created a bacterium’s genetic software and then transplanted it into a host cell.

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-26T12:34:40+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/into_the_breach_artificial_life_forms_evolve_basic_intelligence-archive.html [Into the Breach] Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence. It's really basic intelligence. Essentially there is a natural selection for entities that can remember. But, cool nonetheless. Posted by Kendall at 8:57 AM ...

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-24T12:34:55+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/creation_of_the_first_artificial_life_form_optimal_functioning-archive.html [Optimal Functioning] A brand new living cell and the beginning of an era for artificial life forms! It’s official, J. Craig Venter and his team have created the first self-replicating synthetic cell with a completely man-made set of genetic instructions””a never before existing bacteria species has joined the ranks of the living.

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-24T12:33:57+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/artificial_life_forms_evolve_basic_intelligence_dateline_zero-archive.html [Dateline Zero] Michigan State University (MSU) researchers have developed “digital organisms” called Avidians that were made to evolve memory, and couldeventually be used to generate intelligent artificial life and evolve into symmetrical, .

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-19T12:37:23+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/howstuffworks_artificial_life-archive.html [HowStuffWorks Daily Feed] ­The claims about the impending invention of artificial life may be a tad bold. Among the skeptics is Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, says the 10-year time frame is too ambitious.

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-19T12:36:08+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/3rd_cosmos_workshop_and_artificial_life_xii_cosmos_research-archive.html [CoSMoS Research] The 3rd CoSMoS workshop is being held as a related event of the Alife conference on Thursday 19th August, so anyone attending the conference is more than welcome to come along to our workshop. We have free copies of the proceedings available on a first come, first serve basis.

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-17T12:35:20+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/intelligent_design_the_future_has_craig_venter_produced_-archive.html [Intelligent Design the Future] On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin examines the overblown claims of Craig Venter, who announced earlier this year that he had produced artificial life, "the stuff of dreams and nightmares." Listen in for a cool-headed analysis of what Venter and his team really accomplished.

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-17T12:33:49+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/artificial_life_forms_evolve_basic_intelligence_american_scientist-archive.html [American Scientist Online] Similar to microbes, Avidians take up very little space, have short generation times, and can evolve new traits to out-compete their rivals. Unlike microbes, their evolution can be stopped at any time, reversed, repeated, and the precise sequence of mutations that led to the new trait can be dissected.

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-14T12:34:35+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/artificial_life_forms_evolve_memory_american_scientist-archive.html [American Scientist Online] The digital offspring of researchers at Michigan State University "live" in a computer and replicate using strings of computer code instead of DNA. An article in New Scientist reports that they might .

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-14T12:33:49+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/todayonline_science_artificial_life_forms_grow_a_brain-archive.html [TODAYonline] DETROIT - Computer-simulated life forms which reproduce themselves inside their electronic world have evolved to produce basic intelligence.

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-12T12:33:59+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/can_artificial_life_evolve_intelligence_an_update_nanotechnology-archive.html [Nanotechnology] An article in New Scientist with the optimistic title “ Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence ” gives an update on how two specific examples of computational artificial life is doing in terms of evolving to have more .

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-12T12:33:39+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/instapundit_blog_archive_artificial_life_forms_evolve_basic_-archive.html [Instapundit] SHOCKINGLY, I DIDN'T FIND THIS ON LIKETOTALLY80S.COM: “Girls” by the White Animals. ”¦ » August 8, 2010. ARTIFICIAL LIFE FORMS evolve basic intelligence. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 2:38 pm ...

]]> Entry admin 2010-08-10T12:39:31+00:00 http://www.kybernetica.com/knight_science_journalism_tracker_blog_archive_new_scientist_-archive.html [Knight Science Journalism Tracker] The story comes with illus - a moth-like sea monkey or something that is labeled as “artificial life from a digital sea.” What is that thing? Who made it? Did it evolve spontaneously in computers? How does it illustrate this story? ...

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