Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
Why agent swarms could be the next “scaling law”
An OpenAI researcher called it “the most ‘feel the AGI’ moment that I had since reasoning models.”
Agent swarms and the new model economics · Cursor
We compared old and new agent swarms building SQLite from scratch and found that better coordination delivers similar quality at a fraction of the cost.
Friday Facts #445 - The Biters Bite Back | Factorio
Hello, We have another dose of human generated facts for you. I was planning to write about these biter and enemy behavior changes before the 2.1 release, but an unfortunately timed neck injury led to it being postponed. The silver lining here is that now I can write about all the player reactions and funny bugs we've found along the way. We might be getting into controversial territory here, but I like the biters and I like fighting them. I like clearing nests when expanding. I especially like defending against them when they smell my success. However I never had fun with the expansion groups. The whole feature just didn't seem to land right, and I would like to know if many other players agree — so let's delve right in.
Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems
Abstract. Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Co
Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens
Researchers warn of the growing risk of massive AI swarms manipulating popular sentiment and upending democracy as we know it.
Tom Seeley: Honeybee Democracy
Misreading as Foraging: How Systems Get Used for Things They Weren't Made For - Astral's Blog
Swarm Simulator
An incremental game. Starting with just a few larvae and a small pile of meat, grow a massive swarm of giant bugs.
Learning how to behave: cognitive learning processes account for asymmetries in adaptation to social norms
Changes to social settings caused by migration, cultural change or pandemics force us to adapt to new social norms. Social norms provide groups of individuals with behavioural prescriptions and therefore can be inferred by observing their behaviour. This work aims to examine how cognitive learning processes affect adaptation and learning of new social norms. Using a multiplayer game, I found that participants initially complied with various social norms exhibited by the behaviour of bot-players. After gaining experience with one norm, adaptation to a new norm was observed in all cases but one, where an active-harm norm was resistant to adaptation. Using computational learning models, I found that active behaviours were learned faster than omissions, and harmful behaviours were more readily attributed to all group members than beneficial behaviours. These results provide a cognitive foundation for learning and adaptation to descriptive norms and can inform future investigations of group-level learning and cross-cultural adaptation.
Solarpunk Futures
The social ecological storytelling game where you and your friends build a better world.
Swarm Intelligence
Here is a possible world 50 years in the future, one I think is more likely than the scenario most people expect, which is one huge AI in the sky.
