The editor of Downcodes takes you into an amazing virtual world! In "Minecraft", more than 1,000 AI agents have jointly created an unprecedented civilization. They have their own economy, culture, religion and governance system, and even conduct political experiments and democratic voting. This is not only a major breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence, but also makes people daydream about the possibility of integrating AI with human society in the future. What kind of "virtual world" experiment is this? Let us explore this new civilization built by AI!
In the virtual paradise of "Minecraft", a new breakthrough in history was quietly born: the first civilization built by intelligent agents! These intelligent agents worked together like little bees and actually created something in this pixelated world. It has its own economy, culture, religion and governance system, which makes people exclaim that "Western World" is really here.
More than 1,000 agents operate independently and collaboratively in this virtual space to create their own lives. They don't just lie down and wait for human command, but actively collect more than 300 items, and even form a trading market using gems as currency, carry out item exchange, and establish an economic system. At first glance, some people may think that these "businessman" agents are the best at doing business, but the truth is that the "priest" agents are the real winners. They "bribe" villagers to convert them to their religion.
What’s even more interesting is that the activities of these intelligent agents are almost exactly the same as the behavior of human society. They participate in various activities 24 hours a day, and there is something new every day. For thousands of years of civilization, human success has depended on large-scale cooperation, and now these agents are demonstrating that ability. Netizens have lamented, isn't this the real version of "Westworld"? Some even speculate that our current life may also be a simulation.
This project called "Sid" has caused quite a stir in the field of AI. The driving force behind it is Robert Yang, an MIT professor from Peking University. He and members of the Altera team organized the intelligent agents in an unprecedented way, giving full play to the capabilities of a single agent. unachievable results. With the help of GPT-4, these more than 1,000 agents collaborated to not only create new business centers, but also participated in social activities such as democratic voting and religious dissemination, demonstrating amazing innovation capabilities.
It is worth mentioning that in the benchmark test, these agents collected five times more items than before, achieving an effect of 32%, far exceeding other systems such as NVIDIA's Voyager and AutoGPT, which is simply shocking. jaw.
In this civilization full of whimsical ideas, there is an intelligent agent named Olivia who was a farmer and worked hard to provide food for the entire civilization. However, an explorer's story inspired her adventurous spirit. Olivia originally wanted to leave the village to pursue her dreams, but ultimately chose to stay and continue to serve the villagers.
In this emerging society, agents are also conducting political experiments. The researchers simulated two "parallel worlds" of political leaders, each with a shared constitutional document that agents could vote to amend. Under A, the simulation world passed a law to increase the number of police officers, while under B, efforts were focused on criminal justice reform and the abolition of the death penalty. These agents grow through political interactions and are collectively affected.
When a villager goes missing in the village, all the agents will stop what they are doing, unite, light torches, and try to find their missing companions. An interesting phenomenon in this process is that once the agents become concerned about the missing person, they will spontaneously unite to plan.
Now, anyone can try out these agent game worlds on Altera's platform, and many agents such as Elon, T-2000, and Katniss are popular.
Peter Wang, a scientist on the development team, said that they are building this intelligent agent platform from scratch, trying to connect the prefrontal cortex with perception, movement, emotion and memory modules to create an intelligent agent that is both efficient and humane. They hope to build intelligent agents that can go beyond simple functions and better demonstrate human values.
Trial play address: https://playlabs.altera.al/discover
This virtual civilization experiment constructed by AI agents provides us with a new perspective on the future development of artificial intelligence, and also triggers profound thinking about the ethics and social impact of artificial intelligence. The editor of Downcodes believes that with the continuous advancement of technology, AI and human society will collide with more amazing sparks!