Author: Mike Levin
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What do algorithms want? A new paper on the emergence of surprising behavior in the most unexpected places
Our latest preprint shows some unexpected competencies and behavior in simple sorting algorithms, with implications about unconventional and minimal substrates for basal cognition.
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Experiments in AI Art with Midjourney #5
A set of recent images produced by my prompts with MidJourney, and a short explanation of how I think about this sort of art relative to the spectrum of agency.
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How I write papers
My process for writing papers centers around a top-down outline and strict separation of the creative process of story-telling from the mechanics of filling in details.
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On artificial beings
A few links to relevant papers, and some artwork and text around questions of AI and biological Selves.
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Where can I do a PhD in bioelectricity? Or in other niche topics.
Many young people are fascinated by the promise of bioelectricity research and email me to ask where they can join a PhD program that focuses on this area. Here is a bit of brief and general advice.
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Meet the Anthrobots: a new living entity with much to teach us
Meet the Anthrobots – a new synthetic morphology creation with implications for biomedicine, biorobotics/bioengineering, and basic evolutionary developmental biology.
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Some macrophotography of nature (microscope and macro lenses)
Some photographs of nature (insects mostly), taken with a microscope or macro lenses.
