Lots to ponder here about human consciousness, human angst, and the coming torrent of AI bots fueled by corporate profit at the expense of polluting the digital ecology we’ve built over the last few decades.
It is by no means currently pristine, but pollution always comes with capitalist initiatives, and AI bots are about to transform so much of what we know about everyday life, leaving behind much more artificial pollution than we can ponder now…
These AI agents are building ‘civilizations’ on Minecraft | Cybernews:
Run by California-based startup Altera, the project had AI agents collaborating to create virtual societies complete with their own governmental institutions, economy, culture, and religion.
Altera said it ran simulations on a Minecraft server entirely populated by autonomous AI agents “every day” and the results were “always different.”
In one simulation, AI agents banded together to set up a market, where they agreed to use gems as a common currency to trade supplies – building an economy.
Curiously, according to the company, it was not the merchants who traded the most but a corrupt priest who started bribing townsfolk to convert to his religion.
Good read on the topic with some predictions about AI bots from Ted Gioia here as well.