Tim Taylor | Weird Tales: Early Visions of Machines That Can Reproduce and Evolve, and Their Relevance Today @drtimt | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
This is a prerecorded version of Tim Taylor's keynote talk presented at the 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2021) on Monday 19 July, 2021 (robot100.cz/alife2021/).
The talk is based upon the book "Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve" by Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin (Springer, 2020). Further details about the book can be found at tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook/.
The book explores the very early history of the idea of machines, AI and robots that are capable of self-reproduction and evolution. In the talk, Tim focuses in particular on the development of ideas over the period from the 1840s to the 1960s.
The full live talk including Q&As is available at youtu.be/najEbqtgat0
This is a prerecorded version of Tim Taylor's keynote talk presented at the 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2021) on Monday 19 July, 2021 (robot100.cz/alife2021/).
The talk is based upon the book "Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve" by Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin (Springer, 2020). Further details about the book can be found at tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook/.
The book explores the very early history of the idea of machines, AI and robots that are capable of self-reproduction and evolution. In the talk, Tim focuses in particular on the development of ideas over the period from the 1840s to the 1960s.
The full live talk including Q&As is available at youtu.be/najEbqtgat0
