Growing Neural Cellular Automata | Hacker News

A Hacker News post resurfaced a Distill visualization on growing neural cellular automata.

Commenters debated its practical usefulness, biological realism, and links to morphogenesis and regeneration.

A newer paper also sparked interest by suggesting neural cellular automata could help generate pretraining tokens.

The discussion frames neural cellular automata as a promising but still speculative bridge between AI generation and biological modeling.