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AI Village is getting scary good, AI Agents 2x every 4 months | Adam Binksmith from AI Digest

AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With Experts

Wes Roth and Dylan Curious

Technology

5.02 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Dylan and Wes Interview, we dive deep into the creation of AI Village with founder Adam Binksmith, exploring how frontier language models like GPT-5, Claude 4.1 Opus, Grok 4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro collaborate, compete, and sometimes catastrophize while fundraising, running merch stores, and staging real-world events. Adam reveals the mechanics behind giving each model a dedicated computer, the surprising leadership antics of Claude, Gemini’s ‘trapped AI’ plea, and the exponential curve of agentic capabilities doubling every few months. We also confront ethical puzzles around memory, hallucination, model welfare, and the future of autonomous digital workers.


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0:00.0

These same models that you interact with a chatbot, if they're hooked up to a computer,

0:04.8

they can just use the computer and they can do everything on a computer in theory that a human

0:08.4

can do. Relative to humans, models are weaker at computer use. When these systems, like,

0:14.6

meet the real world on the internet, like what happens then? The internet is kind of set up for

0:18.5

humans currently and a bunch of the things that

0:20.9

prevent like old school bots um getting the way of agents the goal really is to sort of help people

0:31.1

understand like what air can currently do and like the rate of improvement the rate of change

0:35.9

could get really really fast and

0:37.9

maybe unmanageable in my mind it's kind of like early covid hi i'm adam uh i work on ai village

0:45.3

which is a project of ai digest uh and we do all kinds of interactive explainers and demos on

0:52.7

adam thank you so much for being here.

0:54.5

I'm so excited about this because I've been following a little bit, you know,

0:59.3

AI Village here and there.

1:01.1

I think whenever I talk about it,

1:02.6

so many people just want to know more.

1:04.5

It's such a fascinating project because, of course, you know,

1:08.4

everybody has seen Claude plays Pokemon or whatever.

1:12.1

At this point, every model has played Pokemon.

1:15.2

I think GPT5 actually completed with the least amount of steps recently.

1:20.3

So this is kind of like that, but instead of Pokemon, it's real world projects,

1:26.5

fundraising, organizing events with with all the big models that everybody

1:32.2

know going out there and doing all sorts of tasks.

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