On excessive digital consumption

Many people today are talking about how uncomfortable they feel about their dependence on devices, and more specifically the content they consume via their devices. Whilst this theme is certainly well established, I have observed very few experimenting with ways of adapting to this trend in a positive manner. What is interesting is how, in …

Evolving Specialised Species in Diverse Simulated Ecologies using a Subsumption Architecture

Evolving Specialised Species in Diverse Simulated Ecologies using a Subsumption ArchitectureDownload Back in 2006, three years in to my degree in “computer systems and software engineering” at the University of York, I embarked on my Masters project. The ambition was quite clear – to use a complementary suite of AI algorithms to simulate speciation. The …