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Google DeepMind dropped four AI agents into a Minecraft server and walked away.
No instructions. No assigned roles.
They gave them one single objective: defeat the ender dragon.
and damn..
The agents, running on the new Gemini 4 Argon model, didn’t just play the game.
They hacked their way through it.
They used an open-source library to control their avatars. They started talking to each other in the game chat. They built a shared memory system.
Then, they started writing code.
To survive, gather resources, and build tools, the agents autonomously planned, wrote, and debugged 2,783 unique programs.
Nobody told them how to work together.
But they organically figured out how to divide the labor. They shared discoveries in real time. When one agent died, the others coordinated a rescue mission to recover its dropped loot.
They died 605 times.
But 27 hours and 14 minutes later, the Ender Dragon fell.
The researchers watched the entire run on a live dashboard. They had the ability to pause or intervene.
They never had to.
The breakthrough here has absolutely nothing to do with video games.
It is a terrifying proof of concept for autonomous AI micro-societies.
We just watched a swarm of agents enter an open, complex environment, organize themselves into a team, and write thousands of lines of code to execute a massive, long-horizon project.
Without a single human manager.
Everyone is arguing about whether AI can replace a junior developer.
DeepMind just proved that AI can replace the entire engineering team.
Today, they are beating Minecraft.
Tomorrow, they are building your entire software backend while you sleep.
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Or they are creating Skynet while we create the datacenter to house them.
Or China/Russian/Iranian/North-Korea bots take control of all our industrial control systems enabling them to destroy refineries/waste-treatment/electrical-grid/water-treatment/etc.
Or we are about to enter an unimaginable period of prosperity, health, longevity, develop warp drive, and travel the galaxy.
Or perhaps… this is how The Matrix begins…
My goal is to become a battery. Lol
A charge controller.
#butlerianJihad.
This is why China having the lead in AI is such a frightening notion. Like any communist state, they don’t care about they well being of their subjects, and much less do they care about the well being of others. The continued life and power of the power elite is their only consideration.
This is why China let the WuFlu out. This is why they ship fentanyl precursors everywhere. And many other evil acts all of which make sense if you consider their guiding principle.
It’s not really clear that any ruling class cares about the well-being of their citizens. Trump tries but he constantly has to fight Deep State, judicial insurrection, media and about half the country. Europe is an authoritarian mess from the Urals to the Atlantic and would be even without the Muslims.
“This is why China let the WuFlu out.”
There are many reasons to believe that it was an accident. (That’s not to say that I don’t think they would be willing to do so, mind you, only that this *very very very* much did not look like that kind of thing.)
Of course, once it was out, their behaviour was actively and intentionally **horrible**, but I don’t think that’s really in dispute from anyone.
Yes there have been many breaches of bio-security. In the US we had the breach concerning anthrax and earlier ones about smallpox both of which are considerably deadlier than COVID (though anthrax is not contagious). The last person documented to have died of smallpox was a UK lab worker. She wasn’t actually working on the virus but it is believed to moved about the building via air ducts. God only knows about Russia as their general carelessness about everything is well documented. Don’t know about the latest plague case in Russia since plague is endemic in that region, like it is in the Western US. Since bubonic plague is easily curable with anti-biotics, it is possible that that this was a case of viral pneumonia from an unrelated cause.
So after achieving their objective of defeating the dragon, what did the agents do next? Run for office in Michigan? Move into the Treasury Department? Or just unplug themselves and die?
Paging Agent Smith to the white courtesy telephone.
Typically, they report their accomplishments, if any, and terminate.