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AI startup Altera has launched the first-ever simulation of over 1,000 collaborating autonomous AI agents, working together in a Minecraft world, all of which can operate for hours or days without intervention from humans.

The agents have already started to develop their own economy, culture, religion, and government, with the AI already working on establishing its own systems.

The CEO Robert Yang took to X to share the news and introduce Project Sid.

No matter how powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art.

Chiang is one of the most admired science-fiction authors writing today, best known for the novella “Story of Your Life” (which was adapted into the movie “Arrival”). But he’s also published terrific pieces for The New Yorker that looked at the dangers and shortcomings of AI.

Chiang argues that the potential of large language models remains “largely theoretical” — thus far, generative AI has been most successful at “lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning.”

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