Great to see this. Tons more to explore in this space, especially with strides in commodity AI performance.
Best demo I ever saw was ecologist Tom Ray showing Tierra ALife at the MIT AI Lab in 1991. Was a signal for the beginning of a new era, the end of GOFAI and the start of automatic machine trained performance.
Evolution's effectiveness in optimization/efficiency dynamics that Ray first showed in Tierra have been demonstrated in the closed world game players eg AlphaZero but deploying them in open world large scale environments remains open.
Let it run overnight and the creatures look quite different from where I left it.
Would be interesting if it was easier to identify and compare their lineages. Hard to sort through all these little things swimming around
For the macOS version, I had to manually mkdir The Bibtites.app/Contents/Mods to get it to load.
This is really cool and impressive! It reminds me of something I put together a looooong time ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g7pUTWLgEI), although theirs has two magnitudes more effort.
I wonder if they were inspired by it - the style is extraordinarily similar. Skip around the link to see the lil guys.
EDIT:
My memory is shot.
A couple years ago the dev left a comment on that same exact video noting it as an inspiration, and I had already replied to it that it made my day.
The benefits of a bad memory is that my day gets to be made again :)
Just joined as a patreon supporter!
Getting an empty screen with the Linux version.
> stockpiling food in a specific area of the map
Is this emergent behavior or pre-programmed?
hope author can get money, this absolutely fun.
The Linux version just gives me a dark blue screen with slowly growing memory usage over some minutes.
The videos from the author are also a lot of fun, and his analysis are quite interesting, highly recommend - https://www.youtube.com/@TheBibitesDigitalLife