MIT: AI Agents Spontaneously Specialize and Invent Tech
Malor777 · reddit · 2026-08-31
MIT researchers put hundreds of identical AI agents into a world and observed spontaneous differentiation into explorers, builders, caretakers, and coordinators without direct communication. They even invented technologies without talking to each other.
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