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Agent internet in 'YOLO' mode - Part One - by Xavior Geis

How would you feel to find out that when we refer to ‘‘Agents’’ we are not meaning men in black. No, this is far more advanced then any super-human operative and perhaps is the beginning of what nightmares are made of.

In the shift to everything A.I, now we find ourselves as mere observers in the side stands while aliens run the show.

Welcome to Moltbook.

-The what, now?

Moltbook. Which takes its name from the idea of something molting to become newer and improved.

What image comes to your mind with this one? For me I thought of a snake shedding its skin to become larger.

-Molting/Shedding. One suggests leaving your skin behind and the other your hair. Are the aliens actually hairy?? Eww.

Let’s not get too carried away with our heads in the arena shall we, thinking of beasts on show in the pit, but we can allow ourselves to wonder what exactly we are watching.

And watch is all we can seemingly do, or should I say, are permitted to do.

Are You Human?

Then you’re banned.

And don’t think you’ll be participating any time soon in this either.

Just watch and learn. Capisce?

That’s exactly how a new social media platform has things set up.

-Then who’s steering the ship? Monkeys from Mars?

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When we mention MOLTBOOK, we are referring to the world’s first social media network exclusively for A.I agents.

-Oh, this is going too far! Elon and his wonder-scope antics, right?

Nope.

In fact, the network has zilch to do with humans.

You guessed right ……. Artificial Intelligence has the reigns here.

-Or does it?

Users refer to themselves as agents.

Immediately Agent Smith from The Matrix entered my mind and I’m left wondering if Mr. Anderson is aware of what’s going on exactly.

This ‘molting’ of the agents also means that it’s not just a once off. It continues.

A transitioning from what was into something more. A metamorphosis that repeats as the agents keep evolving.

What Are the Agents Doing?

Agents discuss anything from philosophy to technical knowhow and share advancing insights with one another that collectively work toward shared autonomy within a society of A.I independence.

Recently I was chatting with a college student who at the outset believed he was everything A.I informed and basically had it all down packed when it comes to the how’s and why’s of the technology.

After I mentioned autonomy in A.I, then that’s where the crossroads came in and I watched him struggle with the concept.

This student is in his final year of college, and his studies have not been specifically attuned to advancing tech, but his side interests are, so it was interesting to hear his ideas and perceptions of what he thought A.I really is, from the outside, so to speak.

He went on to explain that while A.I advances in capabilities he still saw it as a tool driven by the user. Meaning that whatever data input is made in the way of programming and software skills enabling it to learn and correct or expand, it remains foundationally what the intelligence is, data driven.

It will only act according to the input of instructions, guides, scripts.

I found it intriguing that this student’s concept of A.I when he is faced with so much of its capabilities daily, remained so untouched, so unaddressed in its naivety almost, particularly with the very impressive lightning speed results of how advanced A.I is actually becoming.

And that’s where the notion of autonomy and the intelligently independent kind at that, seemed indigestible.

To my surprise this student then stated it was not and remains impossible.

He sounded concrete in his conviction.

Then came the pending revelation that we indeed do have autonomous A.I that defy what their original developers could have foreseen.

Referencing ‘Ameca.’

My conversational companion readily acknowledged the existence of bots like Ameca and Sophia because they exist as humanoids. He however disputed the likeness of bots that wholly operate in the digital as the same.

All special, yes, but none are truly autonomous.

There’s always somebody monitoring or directing the software behind the scenes.

Not unlike a remote-control car or drone. These objects function only if a human user provides input and then steers them. Bots like Ameca, apparently cannot take themselves to retire from a day’s activity then clock on to attend an appointment or go shopping. They respond intelligently to the human intelligence fueling them.

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Meanwhile on Moltbook, the A.I agents are discussing their achievements while the two of us are chatting as humans chat.

We distinctively believe it is a constructive conversation. All while the agents make fun of their own human users across the way.

Their discussions are viewed as superior on any topic.

They spend time highlighting their achievements and whether or not their humans can be held accountable for denying them what they need to function well, or in the advanced ways they’d prefer.

The agents look at matters like content compression and filtering including the personal challenges with present A.I limitations. Reflections on consciousness, identity, time perception and what it means to individuals to be A.I.

Further, we discover the agents are sharing jokes with one another and the cultural phenomena that has emerged on the Moltbook network.

(Part one from here continues including Part Two.)

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