Did Google Researchers Just Create a Self-Replicating Computer Life Form?

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new research from Google on self-replicating life forms
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#google #originoflife #replication

0:00 New study from Google
0:45 How it started: Game of Life
1:25 Von Neumann
2:40 New study used an eccentric language
3:40 What was done in the study
4:45 The assumption made in the study
5:20 Unexpected results
6:50 Why this is important and what it shows
8:00 Criticisms and comparison to RNA studies
9:30 Using other languages and more surprises
10:05 Additional questions
10:50 Comparison to clay crystal research

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[demeurecorentin]

Brainfuck was originally developed as a joke, the fact that it found a niche use in biological computer science is amazing.

[AceSpadeThePikachu]

So it turns out life doesn't emerge in spite of entropy...it emerges BECAUSE of it. It implies that not only should life be common, it should be EVERYWHERE. Heck, ANY system left to its own devices should form something resembling life according to this. A universe made of life. Never before has a coding program been more appropriately named.

[agranero]

Brainfuck is just a way to describe a Turing Machine in a programming language format, so even being a joke it was a solid concept far before it was created.

A "Game of life" pattern can actually self-replicate. The program "Golly" provides one by default, called It even has a double line of "gliders" encoding the information on how to build the end stations, like DNA.

[johnwest]

If ANYTHING is occurring randomly, it will either accomplish nothing, destroy itself, or self-replicate. Over time, the first two do nothing. Only the 3rd causes larger change, and so it will.

[Crimsuhn]

The fact this title can exist in this world on a non click bait channel is wild.

[cg]

Some thoughts on this:
1. Limited space IS a fitness criterion in itself.
2. Longer code means less probability for a working program to emerge.
3. If space is the only limit, fast replication is the optimal fitness. So nothing more complex has an advantage and will always be suppressed by fast replication.

[Voltastik]

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[seabeepirate]

Absolutely no evolutionary pressure is a stretch. They would need infinite space in order to avoid the constraints of a closed system to produce an environment with no pressures and then the code itself would be a pressure since it has the ability to alter the local environment. It’s still cool and I’m looking forward to what they discover with it but exactness is not objective.

[andrewbreding]

If I had one vote to cast for "truly wonderful person" it would be you Anton. Your content is so pure and your so jolly about it

[seanmadson]

Chaos mimicking life in simulations sounds like some 40k lore

[Atrigraphy]

They should isolate samples of those self-replicators and give them fresh environments. Then merging different environments at a later state.

[sindrek]

This is how we get replicators, have you not seen Stargate??

[PhilW]

The way self-replication arises from just random changes - and with no evolutionary pressures - is fascinating!

[KeelanJon]

I am glad someone finally created a program for this, I have often pondered a simulation of this nature. Imagine what could come from running a larger simulation with our most powerful computers allowing for faster computations. Digital evolution on fast forward. Incredibly exciting.

[liecfgh]

Thank you very much Anton, for this once again super exciting video! It's great to be kept so well informed by you about exciting new discoveries and opportunities to create new knowledge. And of course for the warm smile at the end, which I always like to return. All the best for you, your family and your channel!

[bentationfunkiloglio]

Seems like the paper authors might have incorrectly assumed that randomly generated programs in a given language will produce random behavior. They will not.

The underlying rules and structure of any programming language will inevitably generate strong biases in the way their respective programs behave.

[genostellar]

I honestly don't know why it was a surprise. If you have programs set to change their properties randomly and they are put together in a place with limited space, the fact is that the ones that are better able to survive, do survive, and the ones that aren't as good will die out. There doesn't have to be any inherent mechanism. It's simply limited space and random changes. Eventually, a random change makes something that self-replicates and is thus able to survive much better than all other programs, and so it spreads and snuffs out everything else until something better takes over. Seems obvious to me.

[Theodore-tjjo]

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[imranhussain-iyxi]

It’s incredible to see such kindness and love. Thank you all!