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Creatures: artificial life autonomous software agents for home entertainment
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A technical description of Creatures, a commercial home-entertainment software package that provides a simulated environment in which exist a number of synthetic agents that a user can interact with in real-time, and a discussion of the scientific implications of the system.
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Creation: Life and How to Make It
From the Publisher: Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create…
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The Arab Awakening
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The Creatures Global Digital Ecosystem
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An artificial life entertainment-software product called Creatures was released in Europe in late 1996 and in the United States and Japan in mid-1997 and it seems reasonable to estimate that there are up to 5 million norns existing in the cyberspace provided by the global Creatures user community.
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Expert Opinion: Creatures: An Exercise in Creation
  • S. Grand
  • Computer Science
    IEEE Expert
  • 1 July 1997
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Taking a holistic approach and attempting to create such a "whole" organism might sound like a brave or even foolhardy task, but in this article the possibilities are explored and what could be done are explored.
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Creatures: Entertainment Software Agents with Artificial Life
We present a technical description of Creatures, a commercial home-entertainment software package. Creatures provides a simulated environment in which exist a number of synthetic agents that a user…
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Of Mountains and Molehills
From the combination of knowledge and actions, someone can improve their skill and ability. It will lead them to live and work much better. This is why, the students, workers, or even employers…
Playing God: The Historical Motivations of Artificial Life
Just as artificial intelligence comes in several philosophically distinct flavors—for instance, Strong versus Weak—the discipline of artificial life can encompass a number of things, from the…
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The year 2001 bug: whatever happened to HAL?
In 1950, Alan Turing made a prediction: within 50 years, the idea that machines can think will be commonplace and computers will routinely pass the Turing Test. Those in the AI business have only one…
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Water is a source of cooperation rather than war.
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