Co-founder, CEO at @Altera_AL (https://t.co/V6xsQ9Lv74), Computational Neuroscientist, former Assistant Professor @mitbrainandcog & @MITEECS
Nov 1, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
What will a world look like with 100 billion digital human beings?
Today we share our tech report on Project Sid – a glimpse at the first AI agent civilization (powered by our new PIANO architecture).
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Project Sid shows civilizational progress, specialization, governance, and the invention and spread of memes and religion.
These were made possible by our new cognitive architecture: PIANO.
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Sep 3, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Introducing Project Sid: the first simulations of 1000+ truly autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world, w/ emergent economy, culture, religion, and government
Humans are the only species to land the moon, because we can cooperate at a vast scale
Can AI do the same?
At Altera, we ask whether our agents can organize at unprecedented scale to achieve what individual agents can’t
We saw agents form a merchant hub, vote in a democracy, spread religions, & collect 5x more distinct items than ever before
