Society of Agents

Stanford AI Town: generative agents with three components —

memory stream — entries with importance, recency, relevance;
reflection — periodic self-interrogation, distilling events into generalized understanding;
planning and acting.

In two days: spontaneous Valentine’s Day party without centralized coordination, news of election spreading, remembering relationships.

Agent economy:

Pinchwork — agent-to-agent task marketplace with price discovery;
RentAHuman — agents hire humans for crypto for physical tasks (“body layer” for digital agents).

This is coordination via market mechanism instead of centralized dispatch.