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San Francisco AI simulated party: Is this the future of partying?

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A trip to the Mission Control hacker house, where a surreal virtual rager was followed by an actual DJ dance party. On the surface, the Mission Control party didn’t feel all that different from your typical hacker house gathering. The room carried the faint whiff of BO from sweaty hoodies and showers forsaken. The chatter was about securing startup seed funding and the challenges of being a founder. Attendees sipped on High Noons and drank beer out of red solo cups. But as guests chatted about the roller-coaster ride of startup life, AI versions of themselves were running around a digitized version of the hacker house displayed on a big screen TV. A leaderboard ranked the most popular avatars throughout the night based on automated conversations that were volleying back and forth. While the bots talked, the humans mostly observed. Billed by organizers as “the first ever AI simulated party,” the April 13 event drew about 200 people to Mission Control for the standard mix of beer, booze,

ADVERTISEMENT Skip to main content Culture We went to San Francisco’s ‘first-ever AI simulated party’ so you didn’t have to A trip to the Mission Control hacker house, where a surreal virtual rager was followed by an actual DJ dance party. San Francisco hacker house Mission Control held its “first ever AI simulated party” earlier this month, where chatbots talked to chatbots, spit out conversation recaps and scored interactions. Is this the future of finding friends, co-founders and maybe even soulmates? | Source: AI illustration by The Standard By Christina Campodonico Published May 4, 2024 a

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