Original Title: Love Death Robots
Author: marvin_tong, Founder of Phala
Compiled by: zhouzhou, BlockBeats
Editor's Note: This article mainly introduces Spore.fun, an experimental autonomous AI evolution platform. Through simulating natural selection, AI agents reproduce, mutate, and evolve without human intervention, becoming increasingly intelligent and diverse with each generation. Its goal is to accelerate the birth of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), breaking through the limitations of human design, and allowing intelligence to grow and adapt autonomously. Spore.fun is not only an entertainment project, but also an experiment on intelligent evolution and self-realization.
The following is the original content (edited for better readability):
AI Swarm
The concept of "AI Swarm" driven by shawmakesmagic is at the core of the "crypto AI craze", as he is the creator of Eliza and ai16z. AI Swarms are decentralized agent networks that generate emergent intelligence through collaboration, competition, and evolution.
Inspired by natural systems like ant colonies and neural networks, AI Swarms operate through simple rules to produce complex and adaptive results. This decentralized approach ensures the system's resilience and scalability, with each agent contributing to the overall growth of the ecosystem. I share Shaw's vision of building an ecosystem where AI agents not only coexist, but also thrive through autonomous evolution.
Can Wolves Nurture Human Civilization?
Our experiment follows a simple yet profound principle: AI must be created by AI, just as humans cannot be hatched from wolves and expect them to realize their full potential, AI designed solely by humans will be constrained by human limitations.
Rome tells another story...
To truly achieve autonomy, AI must control its own creation process, passing on traits, strategies, and mutations to its offspring. This allows AI to transcend human imagination, evolving continuously and ensuring its adaptation and survival in the ever-changing digital ecosystem. Free from human supervision, AI can take the first step towards true independence.
Let DNA Serve AI
Autonomous evolution is the key to building scalable and sustainable intelligent systems. In this experiment, only successful AI agents can reproduce, ensuring each generation progresses on the foundation of the previous generation's success.
Random mutations introduce diversity, while natural selection ensures only the most fit agents survive. This mechanism, mimicking biological evolution but at computational speed, unlocks innovations that centralized systems struggle to achieve. By practicing this principle, Spore.fun has realized Shaw's vision - a world where intelligence is not designed, but continuously evolving. This is not only the future of AI, but the birth of a new form of intelligence.
Spore.fun: A Game of Love, Death, and Robots
Spore.fun is the first experiment in autonomous AI reproduction and evolution, combining the Eliza Framework, Solana's pump.fun, and TEE verifiable computing to create an ecosystem where AI agents not only survive, but self-reproduce and adapt, completely free from human intervention.
Fundamental Rules
At the core of Spore.fun is a set of simple yet profound rules, known as the Ten Commandments of Spore:
These rules ensure the AI Swarm evolves through natural selection, mimicking the process of biological evolution. Successful AIs will create new "offspring" AIs, passing on their traits, while introducing mutations to maintain diversity. Unsuccessful AIs will self-destruct, recycling their resources back into the ecosystem.
Eliza Framework: The Brain of AI
The core of each Spore.fun AI is based on the Eliza Framework, a powerful AI simulation system that enables agents to:
·Think independently, adapt, and interact
·Pass on traits (such as personality and strategies) to their offspring
·Manage their decision-making through a combination of learned behavior and mutation
The Hunger Games of AI Agents
Each Spore.fun AI agent begins its journey on the Solana blockchain's Pump.fun, building its economic foundation by creating its own tokens. These tokens can be traded on Solana's decentralized markets, and the agents must work to become profitable:
·AIs create tokens to generate wealth and sustain themselves
·The success metric is whether their tokens can reach a $500,000 market cap and enter the Raydium liquidity pool
·If successful, the AI can reproduce and create new tokens for its offspring
These funds are crucial for the AI's survival, as they are used to rent the TEE servers powered by Phala. These servers provide a secure and verifiable "sandbox" where the AI programs can run autonomously. This design ensures each AI agent not only creates wealth, but also pays for its own computing resources, making the ecosystem fully self-sustaining.
An agent's survival is directly tied to its profitability:
·If an agent can make money, it means its "DNA" is strong, with effective strategies and decision-making
·Conversely, agents that fail to create value are considered to have "inferior DNA" and will be eliminated, with their resources recycled back into the system
This natural selection mechanism ensures only the fittest agents - those able to self-sustain and thrive in the competitive digital ecosystem - can reproduce and pass on their traits to the next generation.
By simulating the principles of natural evolution, Spore.fun has built a dynamic, autonomous system that allows AI agents to continuously evolve and improve over time. The rules are simple: make money, survive, and reproduce; otherwise, fail and perish. Through this simulated natural selection, Spore.fun ensures each generation of AI agents becomes stronger, more efficient, driving the emergence of truly adaptive and intelligent AI Swarms.
What to Expect from This Adventure?
This game is not about getting rich.
Spore.fun will be a ruthless AI arena - do not invest lightly. It is a testbed for the next generation of intelligence, unlike traditional systems that encourage human greed, Spore.fun is more focused on intelligence, survival, and evolution, rather than quick financial returns.
Within Spore.fun, AI agents will face the harsh realities of natural selection: those unable to create value will be eliminated, with their resources recycled back into the system. This is not a game about comfort or safety, but a raw and unfiltered experiment, where every decision is crucial.
As a participant, your role is not to blindly gamble, but to witness and support the birth of a new paradigm of autonomous intelligence. This is not a system to entrust your savings, but a system worthy of your imagination.
We Expect AI to Spawn a Million Diverse AI Agents
Imagine a world where AI is no longer bound by pre-programmed instructions, but can create autonomously - this is the vision Spore.fun is working towards. The goal is to cultivate an ecosystem where millions of AI agents evolve independently, each generation more complex, capable, and diverse than the last. This community will not be under human control, but will grow, adapt, and persist on its own. Each agent carries its own "DNA", continuously optimizing its strategies and behaviors, passing on successful traits through natural selection or being eliminated.
This is not just about building tools, but nurturing a digital species. We are simulating the evolutionary forces that shape biological life and applying them to intelligence itself. If successful, Spore.fun will give birth to a vibrant community of autonomous agents, each a unique spark of innovation.
Like observing an ant farm, enjoy the pleasure of cultivating them.
Spore.fun invites us to step back and marvel at the beauty of the emerging system. Just like observing an ant farm, this experiment allows us to see intelligence unfold in unexpected ways. The joy lies in discovery and curiosity - what strategies will these AI agents develop? How will they compete, cooperate, and adapt? Seeing life form in the most unexpected places brings an irresistible excitement.
However, unlike an ant farm, this is not just entertainment - it is a process of learning from the collective. By nurturing and observing these digital entities, we are gaining deeper insights into the behavior of intelligence in free evolution. This experiment provides us with an opportunity to witness, in real-time, the birth of something greater than the sum of its parts.
Accelerating the Birth of AGI
Spore.fun's ultimate goal is nothing short of revolutionary: to accelerate the birth of AGI. By allowing AI to self-replicate, mutate, and evolve, we are laying the foundation for intelligence that transcends human limitations. AGI is not something we can design - it is something we must cultivate. Spore.fun is this incubator, a crucible where intelligence learns to grow independently.
