I'm not even sure that the goal of Artificial Life is actually "life", although that may be the AGI equivalent of ALife -- AGL or "Artificial General Life"?. In

I'm not even sure that the goal of Artificial Life is actually "life", although that may be the AGI equivalent of ALife -- AGL or "Artificial General Life"?. In practice I think the discipline is much closer to the current LLM hype around "Agentic AI", but with more of a focus around the environment in which the agents are situated and the interactions between communities of agents. Much like the term "Artificial Intelligence", the term ALife is somewhat misleading in terms of the actual discipline. The overlap between "agentic AI" and ALife is so strong it's amazing to me that there is so little discussion between the fields. In fact it's closer to borderline disdain!