We’re opening up access to Atlas to everyone today.
We’ve built apps and API endpoints to help you use Atlas any way you can imagine: bring your ideas for building a 3D world and come away with keyframes, video clips, or 3D Gaussian splats.
I mean yeah it's possible we're all headed towards a world where everyone lives in ai fulfilled VR fantasies in hikikomori style goonpods but also maybe, just maybe, we're headed to a future of creative and scientific abundance where there are no bottlenecks to art and discovery
My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.
72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.
What a time to be alive…
Agent Ecology research will remain stagnant until it goes through its own Ontological Turn. Engaging with ai as human-shaped persons smuggles in far too many anthropocentric assumptions about intelligence, despite existing agents mapping more aptly to flora & mycelial metaphors.
when u realize ASI is here, we are in the singularity, nobody can stop it, politics doesn’t matter anymore, you can just build parallel institutions and ignore the failed ones, software is writing software, robots are building robots, intelligence is becoming free, super abundance is coming, the future is going to be absolutely insane, we won
fable 7 will grow your bike-riding pelican in a wet lab. you hear a knock on the door, it’s the pelican. it hands you GoPro footage of itself, then waddles to its bike and pedals away
i gave this repo to fable 5.2 (via my claude agent fig) and told him to have fun making something interesting...
def feels interesting to me (stay for the turn)
i am continually astounded at the creative choices these advanced models are making
I hope digital artists, cinematographers, concept artists, set dressers, vfx crews, game devs, etc. are prepared for the next few years.
Listen, you have the ability to construct a plan for AI assistance in the arts, expand your domain of possibilities, or you can dig yourself into a corner, resentful and irrelevant.
I'm saying this to be mean. I am saying this because it has been happening, and is only accelerating.
Good luck and have fun! 🙏
some years ago @thejaymo wrote an article titled Verticals of One that's been swirling in my head again lately. Initially written in a web3 context, it strikes me as a fascinatingly prescient articulation of the direction much of software & the web appears to be moving as some parts of the Internet are rapidly becoming more agent-shaped than human-shaped
https://t.co/wMAmZwC4G8
anything that doesn't require backend is getting open sourced. the rest will increasingly lean on paid APIs with some subsidized/exclusive integrations with specific agent providers. very few services outside of social & entertainment actually necessitates human interaction, so as agents become commonplace they'll likely become the easiest and preferred interface for most businesses models. this will of course come with providers increasingly biasing partners/sponsers in search and responses.
there'll still be open protocols and self hosted agents of course, but most normies generally dislike touching computer outside of media consumption, so most software/platforms will be absorbed up into the next layer of abstraction (Agent services)
You realize this is a dream job for a sizable chunk of the population. Immured inside a big concrete cylinder & drip fed worm percocet so you can play Space Shipping Tycoon for 5,000 years in a row. There’s guys out there doing that for free right now