{"id":972,"date":"2011-07-16T05:16:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T04:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2017-07-24T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:28:07","slug":"let-there-be-artificial-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/16\/let-there-be-artificial-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Let there be (Artificial) Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new piece of work \"ALife\"<\/a>is in, this time for a character that up until now didn’t have form; the Artificial Life<\/strong>. I can’t really say much about this character as it is so integral to the plot, any details would pretty much be spoilers.<\/p>\n

What I can say is this is the being that is responsible for bringing the three En-Mercs together to liberate it from the research facility – and effectively beginning a coup d’\u00e9tat on humanity.<\/p>\n

The difference between an Artificial Intelligence <\/strong>(AI) and an Artificial Life <\/strong>(ALife) is pretty interesting. An AI is taught with a top down approach to get about e.g. to solve a maze, if you hit a dead end then turn around and remember not to come back there – eventually the AI will escape the maze.
\nAn ALife <\/strong>is very different, as it employs a bottom up approach – effectively learning from scratch and creating its own rules to ‘survive’ (with maybe a few pre-programmed rules to get it started).
\nIf you could make your own rules to survive and witness humanities penchant for violence as a threat, what would you do about it…?<\/p>\n

Remember to check out the preview of the first <\/a>and second <\/a>issues of the En-Mercs comic by clicking on the links here or in the sidebar!<\/p>\n

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A new piece of work is in, this time for a character that up until now didn’t have form; the Artificial Life. I can’t really say much about this character as it is so integral to the plot, any details … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}