Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM

> Artificial life fizzled as a meta discipline

I've wondered for a while if Artificial Life is in its own winter, waiting for someone to apply the lessons of scale we learned from neural nets.

We're seeing artificial life come back as non-player characters in video games.

There was this AI civilization approach shared here a couple of weeks ago, that I think is an interesting move in this direction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42035319

If you want to follow someone playing with this, there's Steve Grand, who wrote the original creatures game and kickstarted something a bit more ambitious https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1508284443/grandroids-r...