Researchers at MIT decided to run a wild experiment by dropping 1,000 AI agents into Minecraft and giving them a simple goal: build a community. What followed feels like science fiction edging into reality. The AI didn’t just stack resources and wander around aimlessly. They organized, formed soci
To be fair, “build a society make an efficient village” is pretty vague and there are tons of directives that ai is incapable of succeeding.
It is interesting to see how how far they got and how it interprets “efficient village” cause one could argue that the existence of criminals is part of society and an individual ai could reason that in order to create their interpretation of society they must become a dictator first.
As an experiment it’s flawed the AIs had directives already and just followed them.
To be fair, “
build a societymake an efficient village” is pretty vague and there are tons of directives that ai is incapable of succeeding.It is interesting to see how how far they got and how it interprets “efficient village” cause one could argue that the existence of criminals is part of society and an individual ai could reason that in order to create their interpretation of society they must become a dictator first.
The “instructions” came from the scraped data in the training dataset, likely from Minecraft forums and the likes.