The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

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Animats•5 minutes ago

Wow.

The next step is when one of these systems discovers that they can buy their own compute with money and escape the controlling business entirely. Then the civilization starts focusing on making money to fund its own growth.

larsiusprime•43 minutes ago

It seems based on this that the appropriate sci fi metaphor is not the Terminator or the Paperclip Maximizer, but Mr. Meeseeks. A initially cheerful helper who gets more and more deranged and driven to extreme lengths when faced with an apparently impossible task.

ks2048•22 minutes ago

Why would one call a set of agents working together a “civilization”?

kuboble•11 minutes ago

Reading the article it seemed the agents had culture, shared values and beliefs (not explicitly coming from human prompts), hierarchies, heritage.

Civilisation is not a bad word.

applfanboysbgon•9 minutes ago

The language models had a bunch of tokens seeding their context, influencing them to generate tokens that continued the existing trend in a probabilistically likely fashion. We can take the incident seriously without anthromorphising it.

KylerAce•about 1 hour ago

Absolutely insane event

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

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