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A few months back Altera launched Project Sid (its name is a hat tip to Sid Meier, the creator of the iconic Civilisation video game). They poured 1,000 autonomous AI agents into a Minecraft world, and sat back to watch what unfolded.
Altera calls this world, ‘the first agent-based civilisation’. Yang and his colleagues watched as the agents learned to harness the natural resources around them, developed their own economy, and even evolved a culture and religion.
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It’s called Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People. Not a catchy title. But I believe this research will eventually change the world. That’s why I’ve chosen it as the subject of this first in my new series of weekly postcards.
The researcher in question is Joon Sung Park; he’s a PhD student at Stanford University.
He and his team interviewed 1,052 people. They asked them to speak for two hours about themselves and their everyday lives, beliefs and values.
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What if a digital twin of Earth existed? What if a twin that is exactly like the real Earth could be recreated in virtual space? And what if changes in weather, disaster conditions, or urban activities could be updated in real time? Herein lie Associate Professor Yokoya’s goals and dreams.
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Digitizing the real world involves the tedium of real-world processes. Three-dimensional models are created using lidar and photogrammetry, a technique in which hundreds or thousands of photographs of a single object are stitched together to produce a digital reproduction.
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