artificial life

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noun

the simulation of any aspect of life, as through computers, robotics, or biochemistry.

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Also called a-life, alife

[ey-lahyf] /ˈeɪˌlaɪf/ .

Origin of artificial life

First recorded in 1990–95

Words nearby artificial life

artificial intelligence, artificiality, artificialize, artificial kidney, artificial language, artificial life, artificial person, artificial radioactivity, artificial respiration, artificial selection, artificial turf

How to use artificial life in a sentence

Even super-intelligent artificial life forms are subject to the ruthlessly inevitable restrictions imposed on them by game theory—they would, after all, be competing against other super-intelligent organisms like themselves.
How Intelligent Could Life Be Without Natural Selection? - Issue 98: Mind|Arik Kershenbaum|March 17, 2021|Nautilus
We cannot make artificial life because we cannot agree on what life is.
What Is Life? Its Vast Diversity Defies Easy Definition.|Carl Zimmer|March 9, 2021|Quanta Magazine
His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It was also an attack on our freedom of expression and way of life.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

I always wanted my life to be that way, and it became that way.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I liked it because it was like my life coming back together.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
When the father arrived at the hospital, he was told that Andrew Dossi was in surgery, but the wounds were not life-threatening.
Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou

Scientific definitions for artificial life

artificial life

The simulation of biological phenomena through the use of computer models and robotics.