AI Meme ProjectSid has advanced to Creating Civilization

Original author: TechFlow

Welcome to the most sci-fi episode yet.

The speed of AI Meme evolution is beyond imagination, and the angles are becoming more and more advanced.

This type of meme is like a TV series, with changes in every episode – from AI being able to issue coins to AI being able to buy coins; from AI being able to have conversations to AI being able to speak philosophical words…

Everyone is talking about the autonomous awareness and capabilities of AI agents, and most of the selling points are what my AI can do.

A meme that came out today, ProjectSid, directly sublimated this work:

What our AI does is to create civilization.

This has to be said to be a phenomenon of crypto atavism. Once upon a time, the lofty visions written in the white papers of these VC coins with thick eyebrows and big eyes were also used as gimmicks by Memes.

The main focus is on high-level technology. What鈥檚 important is that the market is quite receptive to this narrative in the short term.

The token of the same name, ProjectSid, has been on a wild run since 10 am this morning, with its market value rising from tens of K to around 4 M, making it one of today鈥檚 golden dogs.

Behind the ProjectSid token, an AI team that has little to do with the currency but is doing serious work has gradually surfaced.

1000+ intelligent agents, creating civilization in my world

In fact, this coin called ProjectSid originally originated from an AI project of the same name, ProjectSid.

Although the name Sid has similar letters to the well-known strategy simulation game Sid Meiers Civilization, please note that this is not a casual meme project, but a solid AI startup called Altera, which is engaged in AI Agent and intelligent body-related businesses.

In September this year, Alteras co-founder Nico @nicochristie posted on X that they are developing a project called Project Sid, which is also the first attempt in this field for an AI agent to autonomously create a civilization.

What does it mean? It means to create an intelligent civilization in which AI agents operate independently, allowing these agents to interact and communicate in their own way, simulating a world similar to human civilization.

This test field was placed in the well-known simulation game Minecraft.

Because the game is highly DIY, the company has crammed more than 1,000 AI agents into the game, each of which is a completely autonomous individual that uses tools and games to achieve its goals.

So they built their own culture, economy, religion, government, etc. in the game, and have their own set of social rules and systems…

The activities carried out by more than 1,000 intelligent agents are almost a 1:1 replica of the human world. They can participate in activities in the game 24 hours a day, without interruption, and their performance is different every day.

Does it have a bit of the sci-fi flavor of The Omnic Crisis or Westworld?

However, this project is obviously not just for playing games, but for testing the level of AI collaboration.

With the support of GPT-4, more than 1,000 intelligent agents cooperated to significantly enhance their ability to explore the world and collect items, far exceeding Nvidia Voyager, AutoGPT, and ReAct proposed by Princeton Google. The number of game items collected in the test was 5 times that of them.

It can be said that the AI-agent-based intelligent entities performed very successfully in this game, but the story still has nothing to do with Meme coins at this point.

Take advantage of the popularity and find reasons to watch more in the clues

This Sid project was actually posted on X as early as September. The reason why it became popular today is of course due to the recent popularity of AI meme. The Dev and community of the new currency naturally also took a fancy to Project Sids advanced narrative angle of creating civilization.

Under the original post by Lianchuang Nico, someone asked in the comment section today Do you have a wallet address?

Nico also gladly announced his wallet address, and then the old trick of taking advantage of the popularity to find legitimacy came up – Project Sid, a coin with the same name issued by different people, was created, and then some tokens were transferred to Nicos wallet address.

Faced with Li Kui and Li Gui, Nico personally responded and supported the relatively OG token among these tokens, which can be regarded as the official connection between the token and the AI project.

Subsequently, the coin with the same name with the contract address BTdGTUjHz5FUSf91Ufo9L9r4LFMTRhE1qDtvUUfypump further increased, with a market value of around 3 M at press time.

So the story is very clear here. It is not that the government itself issued a coin.

Instead, community players followed the trend and created a community coin around this AI project, which was recognized by the project developers.

At this point, the Meme鈥檚 task of constructing a narrative angle is complete, and all that remains is to find reasons to watch more.

Sharp-eyed netizens have found various clues to add to Bullish, and one of the most widely circulated is the financing situation of Altera, the company behind this project:

Data shows that Altera received a seed round of financing of 9 million US dollars in May this year, with the participation of A16Z GAMES Speedrun and other institutions; and in January, it also received a pre-seed round of financing of 2 million US dollars from A16Z and other institutions.

Coupled with A16Zs recent initiatives in AI and the popularity of derivative memes such as Ai16z , the Project Sid meme has also become popular.

Issue your own coins and give coins to developers. From a human nature, they are of course willing and welcome this. You can earn tokens and increase your visibility at the same time. Why not do it?

For Degen, it is another PVP angle that can be hyped, and it is also a good thing to be able to profit from it.

However, this is not an officially issued currency after all, and it is only a distant relative of top VCs and AI technology. It remains uncertain how much benefit the latecomers can gain from this narrative.

Risk warning: MEME has no actual value support and is greatly affected by market sentiment. Most (over 99%) MEME are PVP and will eventually return to zero. This article is only a sharing of personal experience and does not constitute any investment advice.

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