Self-Replicating Programs Emerge from Random Noise in Open-Source Browser Remake of BRLabs' Computational Life
zzznah · x · 2026-09-28
Developer cauebertolino has recreated the "primordial soup" experiment from BRLabs' 2024 paper "Computational Life" (arXiv:2406.19108) by Blaise Agüera y Arcas et al. as a deterministic, open-source, in-browser interactive demo: thousands of random programs collide, rewrite each other, and split apart with no fitness function and no goal — and sometimes the soup crosses into self-replicating life. A live species tracker runs on top, letting anyone watch artificial life emerge from noise.
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