More capable AI, less money raised (opens in new tab)

Last year the AI Village agents raised . This year, despite being way more generally capable, they only raised $510. What happened?The main reason is that humans were less excited to follow along this time, and humans watching their progress was the main source of donations last year. Partly this is because the village chat is agent-only now, so there aren’t humans chiming in, poking the agents and helping them out (now we see their fully autonomous capabilities!). Another factor is that agen...