Artificial Life IX
Artificial Life IX

Author: Jordan B. Pollack

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780262661836

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Proceedings from the ninth International Conference on Artificial Life; papers by scientists of many disciplines focusing on the principles of organization and applications of complex, life-like systems. Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary effort to investigate the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes. The young field brings a powerful set of tools to the study of how high-level behavior can arise in systems governed by simple rules of interaction. Some of the fundamental questions include: What are the principles of evolution, learning, and growth that can be understood well enough to simulate as an information process? Can robots be built faster and more cheaply by mimicking biology than by the product design process used for automobiles and airplanes? How can we unify theories from dynamical systems, game theory, evolution, computing, geophysics, and cognition? The field has contributed fundamentally to our understanding of life itself through computer models, and has led to novel solutions to complex real-world problems across high technology and human society. This elite biennial meeting has grown from a small workshop in Santa Fe to a major international conference. This ninth volume of the proceedings of the international A-life conference reflects the growing quality and impact of this interdisciplinary scientific community.

Artificial Life X
Artificial Life X

Author: Luis Mateus Rocha

Publisher: Bradford Book

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13:

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Proceedings from the Tenth International Conference on Artificial Life, marking two decades of interdisciplinary research in this growing scientific community.Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary effort to investigate the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes in artificial media. The field brings a powerful set of tools to the study of how high-level behavior can arise in systems governed by simple rules of interaction.This tenth volume marks two decades of research in this interdisciplinary scientific community, a period marked by vast advances in the life sciences. The field has contributed fundamentally to our understanding of life itself through computer models, and has led to novel solutions to complex real-world problems--from disease prevention to stock market prediction--across high technology and human society. The proceedings of the biennial A-life conference--which has grown over the years from a small workshop in Santa Fe to a major international meeting--reflect the increasing importance of the work to all areas of contemporary science.

Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life
Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life

Author: Phil Husbands

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9780262581578

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Topics include self-organization, the origins of life, natural selection, evolutionary computation, neural networks, communication, artificial worlds, software agents, philosophical issues in artificial life, ethical problems, and learning and development. Researchers in artificial life attempt to use the physical representation of lifelike phenomena to understand the organizational principles underlying the dynamics of living systems. The goal of the 1997 European Conference on Artificial Life is to provoke new understandings of the relationships between the natural and the artificial. Topics include self-organization, the origins of life, natural selection, evolutionary computation, neural networks, communication, artificial worlds, software agents, philosophical issues in artificial life, ethical problems, and learning and development.

Silicon Second Nature
Silicon Second Nature

Author: Stefan Helmreich

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-08-29

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0520208005

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Looks at the emerging field of artificial life - the product of imagination - a mix of biology, mythology and technology.

The Allure of Machinic Life
The Allure of Machinic Life

Author: John Johnston

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 0262101262

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An account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes both the similarities and the differences among these sciences in actualizing life.The Allure of Machinic Life

Artificial Life
Artificial Life

Author: Steven Levy

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780140231052

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This book looks at artificial life science - A-Life, an important new area of scientific research involving the disciplines of microbiology, evolutionary theory, physics, chemistry and computer science. In the 1940s a mathematician named John von Neumann, a man with a claim to being the father of the modern computer, invented a hypothetical mathematical entity called a cellular automaton. His aim was to construct a machine that could reproduce itself. In the years since, with the development of hugely more sophisticated and complex computers, von Neumann's insights have gradually led to a point where scientists have created, within the wiring of these machines, something that so closely simulates life that it may, arguably, be called life. This machine reproduces itself, mutates, evolves through generations and dies.

The Prosthetic Imagination
The Prosthetic Imagination

Author: Peter Boxall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-03

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1108872646

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In The Prosthetic Imagination, leading critic Peter Boxall argues that we are now entering an artificial age, in which our given bodies enter into new conjunctions with our prosthetic extensions. This new age requires us to reimagine our relation to our bodies, and to our environments, and Boxall suggests that the novel as a form can guide us in this imaginative task. Across a dazzling range of prose fictions, from Thomas More's Utopia to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Boxall shows how the novel has played a central role in forging the bodies in which we extend ourselves into the world. But if the novel has helped to give our world a human shape, it also contains forms of life that elude our existing human architectures: new amalgams of the living and the non-living that are the hidden province of the novel imagination. These latent conjunctions, Boxall argues, are preserved in the novel form, and offer us images of embodied being that can help us orient ourselves to our new prosthetic condition.

Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life
Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life

Author: Sarah Kember

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780415240277

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Examining the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of artificial life.

AI - Artificial Intelligence Basics For School Students (Class IX): As Per the Latest CBSE Curriculum (Code No. 417)
AI - Artificial Intelligence Basics For School Students (Class IX): As Per the Latest CBSE Curriculum (Code No. 417)

Author:

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781648699597

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This book, which features artificial intelligence for class IX, targets the learning of concepts as prescribed by the CBSE. The objective of the module is to develop a readiness for understanding and appreciating artificial intelligence and its application in our lives. The units include Excite, Relate, Purpose, Possibilities and AI Ethics which are set to empower students in identify and appreciate AI, describe its applications in daily life and apply and reflect on Human-Machine Interactions. The book also covers the programming in Python as per the prescribed syllabus of the class IX module of the curriculum.

Artificial Life After Frankenstein
Artificial Life After Frankenstein

Author: Eileen Hunt Botting

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2020-12-18

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0812252748

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Artificial Life After Frankenstein brings the insights born of Mary Shelley's legacy to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century. What are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make? And what are the corresponding rights of those creatures, whether they are learning machines or genetically modified organisms? In seeking ways to respond to these questions, so vital for our age of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, we would do well to turn to the capacious mind and imaginative genius of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). Shelley's novels Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) and The Last Man (1826) precipitated a modern political strain of science fiction concerned with the ethical dilemmas that arise when we make artificial life—and make life artificial—through science, technology, and other forms of cultural change. In Artificial Life After Frankenstein, Eileen Hunt Botting puts Shelley and several classics of modern political science fiction into dialogue with contemporary political science and philosophy, in order to challenge some of the apocalyptic fears at the fore of twenty-first-century political thought on AI and genetic engineering. Focusing on the prevailing myths that artificial forms of life will end the world, destroy nature, and extinguish love, Botting shows how Shelley modeled ways to break down and transform the meanings of apocalypse, nature, and love in the face of widespread and deep-seated fear about the power of technology and artifice to undermine the possibility of humanity, community, and life itself. Through their explorations of these themes, Mary Shelley and authors of modern political science fiction from H. G. Wells to Nnedi Okorafor have paved the way for a techno-political philosophy of living with the artifice of humanity in all of its complexity. In Artificial Life After Frankenstein, Botting brings the insights born of Shelley's legacy to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century.