Artificial life

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/artificial-life

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the field name?Artificial Life (ALife)
2. What is the year term coined?1986
3. Who started the field of artificial life?Computer scientist Christopher Langton coined the term in 1986 and organized the first ALife conference in 1987.
4. What are the three main ways scientists create artificial life?Soft ALife uses computer simulations, hard ALife uses robots, and wet ALife uses real chemicals and biology.

Artificial Life (ALife): A multidisciplinary field that studies life by attempting to synthesize and recreate its processes and systems.
Simulation: A computational model designed to imitate the behavior of a real-world system or process.
Emergent Behavior: Complex patterns or properties that arise from the interaction of simpler components in a system.
Biochemistry: The scientific discipline that investigates the chemical processes occurring within living organisms.