#4870 Agents on Survival Island
#4870 Agents on Survival Island Researchers Left an AI Alone on a Virtual Island. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjxeW_hzVBA #4870 Consider this storyline from a YouTube video: """MIT researchers built a small island inside a computer — raised platforms, 12 blocks, a rock, a ring, and one thin column taller than everything else. Then they put an AI agent there for 30 hours with a body that can walk, jump, carry and throw. It had no mission. Nothing kept score. Its instructions said only that it was curious and got bored easily, and whenever it stopped, an automatic message told it to keep going and do whatever it wanted. So if you give an AI a world to explore but no job to do, what does it spend its time doing? They ran 13 copies, each alone, all named Eko. One of them chose to climb the tallest thing on the island. One lost the ring off the edge of the world and built a heart-shaped memorial to it. One discovered a quirk in the island’s physics that the resear...