NEW TIES artificial society
Forget individual artificial intelligence programs for a moment, because a whole artificial society has just opened up. New and Emergent World models Through Individual, Evolutionary, and Social Learning or the NEW TIES project is deveping an artificial computer simulated society composed of agent programs (adaptive, artificial beings that have independent behaviors). The aim is to create an artificial society capable of exploring and understanding its environment through cooperation and interaction. The agent programs are complex enough to develop a communication system and learn to work together.
At first, the world will be running across a grid of 60 computers and contain about 1,000 agents (one day to grow into the millions). Each agent will have its own characteristics (gender, life expectancy, fertility, size, and metabolism), some of which they will pass to their offspring. They will be able to learn from experience as well as from others. NEW TIES is the first to create such a complex large-scale artificial society. The results may have curious implications for evolutionary computing systems, artifical intelligence and linguistics.
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