New Ties Portal - New and Emergent World models Through Individual, Evolutionary, and Social Learning - The NEW TIES project is growing an artificial society using computer programming that develops agents–or adaptive, artificial beings–that have independent behaviours. The project is the first of its kind to develop a large-scale and highly complex computer-based society. The project’s results may have larger implications for information technologies design, evolutionary computing systems, artificial intelligence and linguistics. The project’s goal is to evolve an artificial society capable of exploring and understanding its environment through cooperation and interaction. The agents are sufficiently complex and their environment demanding, which enables them to develop a communication system to learn how to cooperate and to adapt. The development of social learning by passing on knowledge using language within the same generation is a key innovation of the project. Social learning enables the society to rapidly develop an “understanding” of its world collectively. By probing the collective mind we learn how agents perceive their environment and their society. They also assess what skills they have developed to adapt successfully. The development of social learning by passing on knowledge using language within the same generation is a key innovation of the project. Social learning enables the society to rapidly develop an “understanding” of its world collectively. By probing the collective mind we learn how agents perceive their environment and their society. They also assess what skills they have developed to adapt successfully. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.