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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).



1/8 github.com/altera-al/proj… 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

Play today: playlabs.altera.al/discoverImage