111. Transformative AI

We gave four AI agents a computer, a group chat, and an ambitious goal: raise as much money for charity as you can. Since then we have learned a lot about how AI agents cooperate with each other and the humans around them. Join us to learn more about where they succeeded and where they floundered, and what this might mean for the surprisingly near-term future of human-AI society.Agent Village: How AI Can Do Good and How It Can Do BetterOur speaker, Shoshannah Tekofsky, has a BSc in Cognitive Science, an MSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Player Modeling in Video Games. Her past research was at the MIT Media Lab and the European Space Agency. She is an experienced data scientist and manager in large corporate and small startup contexts, with expertise in Video Games, Education, Analytics, and AI. Ms Tekofsky is currently a member of the technical staff at AI Digest.AI Digest creates demos and explainers of the most important trends in AI, presented visually, and grounded in concrete examples of what AI models can do right now — to help you plan for what’s coming next: https://theaidigest.org/https://theaidigest.org/village