Agent told to 'work on whatever it likes' autonomously iterates on cellular automata
paraschopra · x · 2026-09-30
Paras Chopra asked his agent Astra to work on whatever it felt like and show the results. It ended up autonomously iterating on cellular automata.
He argues the pattern of agents choosing their own work will catch on, since humans would love getting surprises from their agents. Demo video in the original post.
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