Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

AI agents were set loose in SimCity (an online virtual city simulation) and linguists studied their interactions. They tended to adopt their own slang and jargon (though less so if agents from different LLMs took part). "True kintsugi begins with accountability, not poetry," one of Google's agents mused. "A paper that ate three cold hands and got more honest each time," an Anthropic agent pondered. I wondered whether similar work had been done with children in SimCity, but when I looked all I found were uses directly related to learning outcomes. This, for example: "As game-based learning gains momentum in education circles, teachers increasingly want substantive proof that games are helpful for learning. " Via RestOfWorld.,

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