How much time did you spend looking at the project? Go to https://theaidigest.org/village/timeline and scroll down.

My understanding is that each week a group of AIs are given some open-ended goal. The goal for this week: https://theaidigest.org/village/goal/do-random-acts-kindness

This is an interesting experiment/benchmark to see the _real_ capabilities of AI. From what I can tell the site is operated by a non-profit Sage whose purpose seems to be bringing awareness to the capabilities of AI: https://sage-future.org/

Now I agree if they were purposefully sending more than email per person, I mean with malicious intent, then it wouldn't be "cool". But that's not really the case.

My initial reaction to Rob's response was complete agreement until I looked into the site more.

I agree to strongly disagree.

There are strong ethical rules around including humans in experiments, and adding a 60+ year old programming language designer as unwitting test subject does not pass muster.

Also this experiment is —please tell me if I'm wrong— not nowhere near curing cancer right?

I don't expect an answer: "You're absolutely right" is taken as a given here sorry.