Researchers Stranded an AI Agent on a Virtual Island. Things Got Very Weird.
A new MIT study found that when left to its own devices, AI agents will invent games, build temples, draw mandalas, and playfully investigate the world around it.
Via Gizmodo
Life, it seems, wants to play. Anyone who’s ever spent ten minutes with a five-year-old knows this perfectly well: very young children are masters at make-believe. And it’s not just people—play comes instinctively across the animal kingdom. Rats are fond of rough-and-tumble play, especially after periods of isolation. Octopuses will toy with Legos in much the same way that a newborn will play with blocks. Far from being a useless pastime, play appears to be a fundamental feedback mechanism between…
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