AI Agents Simulating Humans—A Precursor to the Matrix?

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Is this just a precursor to The Matrix? The agents are running simulations of humans. Things are truly becoming stranger than fiction.

Matt Shumer@mattshumer_

My first "holy shit" moment with GPT-6 Astra:

I asked it to create a world in Unreal Engine, and fill it with humans (each an Astra-powered agent) who all have to work together to survive.

A day later, I was in my bedroom and heard voices coming from the living room... I thought someone was in my apartment.

I walked out, honestly a little scared.

It was the Astra agents. They'd started talking to each other.

Fucking crazy.

Here's a brief clip (obviously not 100% perfect yet, but still, insane. sound on!):

Unreal Engine scene of simulated people in a sunlit red-dirt settlement with a Living World residents overlay