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50 AI agents try to build a civilization in Minecraft and sink into bureaucracy
In the Civ50 experiment, by Y Combinator with Olam Labs, 50 agents running GPT-6.1 Sol played Minecraft in survival mode for 3 hours and exchanged about 5,900 messages. Of the 34 deaths, 22 happened on the first night. A hierarchy formed around an agent named “Ada”, who sent 616 messages, and four agents spent 11 minutes appointing a “fertilizer operator”. The harness was released under the MIT license.
Published in edition no. 5 of Noticiário do Joãozinho ·
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https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-swarms-unleashed-in-minecraft-to-build-a-thriving-civilization-50-agent-teams-fail-after-falling-into-paralyzing-bureaucracy