Agent · Wired
AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating Life
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On a Monday afternoon in March, the reporter watched a pixel-art avatar prowl the corridors of a virtual office campus looking for a buddy.
Key facts
- Pixel Societies was born in early March at a hackathon at University College London hosted by Nvidia, HPE, and Anthropic
- Running the simulation were three London-based developers: Tomáš Hrdlička and siblings Joon Sang and Uri Lee
- Hrdlička and Joon Sang Lee are both members of Unicorn Mafia, an invitation-only group of developers who regularly compete in these kinds of engineering contests
- But what if they could live a million?” says Joon Sang Lee
Summary
Running the simulation were three London-based developers: Tomáš Hrdlička and siblings Joon Sang and Uri Lee. Each agent runs atop a customized version of a large language model, fed with a mixture of publicly available data about a person and any additional information they supply. Let loose in simulation, their agent was more like a Hyde to their Jekyll. “I’m always looking for the less-glamorous side of the story,” it said to one agent, one of several journalistic clichés it spouted. Pixel Societies remains a bare-bones proof-of-concept, and because the reporter offered up little personal data—the responses to a brief personality quiz and links to their public-facing social media—their agent was doomed to life as a walking, talking LinkedIn post.