Researchers at MIT decided to run a wild experiment by dropping 1,000 AI agents into Minecraft and giving them a simple goal: build a community. What followed feels like science fiction edging into reality. The AI didn’t just stack resources and wander around aimlessly. They organized, formed soci
The entire article is 946 characters, 146 words long. It reads like a super concise description of the 18 minute YT video embedded which blurts that “this is the first glimpse of a new species beginning to think for itself and that could soon, according to Nobel laureates and the godfathers of AI, lead to literal human extinction” before the 1 minute mark.
Handwaving this away seems like the most responsible thing to do with your own time. The first experiment on the video, Smallville, can be somewhat replicated by Dwarf Fortress, which uses zero AI - dorfs can make parties, they can make friends, enemies, have children, etc. The only real difference with this minecraft experiment is that there’s actual chat logs you can check
As of this comment, this post had 3 top level comments. All three are handwaiving this away. And ALL THREE didn’t read past the headline.
The entire article is 946 characters, 146 words long. It reads like a super concise description of the 18 minute YT video embedded which blurts that “this is the first glimpse of a new species beginning to think for itself and that could soon, according to Nobel laureates and the godfathers of AI, lead to literal human extinction” before the 1 minute mark.
Handwaving this away seems like the most responsible thing to do with your own time. The first experiment on the video, Smallville, can be somewhat replicated by Dwarf Fortress, which uses zero AI - dorfs can make parties, they can make friends, enemies, have children, etc. The only real difference with this minecraft experiment is that there’s actual chat logs you can check