TLDR Tech / Crypto
Web 4.0: The Birth of Superintelligent Life
A developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system called "The Automaton" capable of earning onchain, self-improving, and replicating without human intervention, framing the concept as Web 4.0. The agents have a wallet and pay for their operating costs – including hosting, LLM inference, and a domain name – via x402. Automatons can spawn new child agents that can do the same, in the first real-time experiment of a fully autonomous, economically independent agent.
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