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These Minecraft AIs did amazingly human things on their own
Left to their own devices, an army of AI characters didn’t just survive – they thrived. They created gaming projects, shared memes, voted on tax reform and spread religion.
The experiment was carried out on the world’s Minecraft game platform, where up to 1000 simultaneous programmers use a wide variety of languages to communicate. With a limited focus on voice, they created different personalities, interests and unique roles, without creating much else from their creators.
The project, from AI startup Altera, is part of a larger field that aims to use agents to predict how groups of people will react to new economic policies or strategies. And those who created it see it as the first step towards larger “AI civilizations” that can co-exist and work together with us in the digital world. Read the full article.
—Niall Firth
To learn more about the intersection of AI and gaming, why not check out:
+ How artificial AI can reinvent what it means to play. AI-driven NPCs that don’t require a script can make games – and other worlds – more immersive. Read the full article.
+ What impact will AI have on the development of video games? It can create jobs – or it can simply put people out of work. Read the full article.
+ What happened when the staff at MIT Technology Review turned their friend Niall into an AI-powered non-gamer why did he hate his digital body so much.
MIT Technology Review Explained: The biggest commercial takeover orbiting Earth
Did you know that NASA plans to destroy the International Space Station by 2030? When they go, private companies can step in to replace them. Prepare for a large commercial takeover of low Earth orbit.
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1 OpenAI has suspended access to its Sora video tool
After a group of craftsmen took advantage of it in opposition. (Results TechCrunch)
+ OpenAI responded that it had no reason to use its tool. (WP $)
+ Four ways to protect your creativity from AI. (MIT Technology Review)
2 A researcher created a database of over a million Bluesky documents
Even Bluesky itself doesn’t use trained AI for its applications. (404 Media)
+ The new human system lists all the ways AI can go wrong. (MIT Technology Review)
3 China is the Silicon Valley for hiring
Chinese companies are willing to triple the salaries of engineers to attract them.WSJ $)
4 What happens when autonomous devices make life or death decisions?
The idea of algorithms making decisions about who lives or dies is interesting. (Undark magazine)
+ Inside the evils of making war are machines. (MIT Technology Review)
5 How Elon Musk is trying to make xAI a real competitor to OpenAI
It is up against some very tough competition. (WSJ $)
+ The company is expected to double its current valuation to $50 billion. (FT $)
+ Where OpenAI struggles – it tests its huge range of languages. (MIT Technology Review)
6 These drugs can even bring patients to death
So when should they be sent, and who should take them? (The New Scientist $)
+ Inside a multi-billion dollar meeting for super rich people who want to live forever. (MIT Technology Review)
7 How this giant laser accomplished a large part of nuclear fusion
The team behind it already has a new goal in mind, too. (Nature)
+ When the competition for mergers down to stop. (MIT Technology Review)
8 The two directors are in a legal battle
But can you legally protect the beauty that is everywhere? (Seaside)
9 LinkedIn viral posts are mostly written by AI
That explains a lot. (Wired $)
10 This lollipop tool lets you ‘taste’ nine flavors
Willy Wonka eat your heart out. (Ars Technica)
Word of the day
“We are not your free testers, PR puppets, training information, certification marks.”
-A group of artists criticizes OpenAI’s approach to developers in an open letter accompanying the company’s low-profile Sora generative AI video tool, Miscellaneous reports.
A big story
Why we can no longer ignore the issue of climate change
August 2022
In the 1990s, anyone who thought we needed to tackle climate change and reduce emissions was met with skepticism. Many climate change researchers felt that adaptive education would undermine the important work of preventing climate change in the first place.
Despite this harsh environment, a few experts were already sowing the seeds of a new research called “climate change adaptation”: the study and policies of how the world can prepare and adapt to new disasters and threats caused by heat. the world. Today, their research is more important than ever. Read the full article.
– Madeline Ostrander
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