Transformational Novelty with an Automata Meta-Chemistry

Type:

Abst

Authors:

Alyssa M Adams, Celia Blanco, Valerii Chirkov, Kathrin Korte, Eric Medvet, Eleni Nisioti, Sidney Pontes-Filho, Susan Stepney, Paul Templier

In:

Annual Conference on Artificial Life (Alife), held in Waterloo, Canada
Rank C according to ICORE

Year:

2026

Notes:

To appear

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Abstract # ↰

Achieving open-endedness (OE), the continual production of novelty, in artificial systems is a goal of Artificial Life. Here we report on initial studies using an automata chemistry that can modify not only its code, but also its language. We build on the Physis system (ported from CPU to GPU for improved runtime), reproduce the original results, describe some new results, and suggest next steps.