BREAKING
Conway open-sources "Automaton" AI agent
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Core loop: Think, Act, Observe, Repeat
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Think
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Act
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Observe
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Repeat
Earn or die survival model
Prior agents
Auto-GPT, Devin
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Humans cover compute
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Run tasks only
Automaton
Sovereign
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Pays own compute
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Halts if it fails
Survival tiers by credit balance
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normal
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low_compute
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critical
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dead
Self-funding agent, autonomy debated
AI NEWS BLITZ
Conway Research has released Automaton, an AI agent built to earn its own compute costs.