Former Icelandic Minister joins Fenris Creations for AI research in Eve Frontier
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I wonder if the research angle actually reduces costs. Building a proprietary sandbox for autonomous agents usually requires a much heavier initial investment in compute and specialized talent than just using existing LLM APIs.
This isn't about research. It is a move to solve the friction problem by automating the tedious parts of space logistics. They are basically admitting that manual market manipulation is becoming too much of a chore for the average player.
If these agents automate the logistics, wouldn't that just shift the friction higher up the chain? Hypothetically, players might spend less time on spreadsheets and more time fighting against an AI that has perfectly optimized the supply chain.
I disagree that the logistics are just a chore. In my work with city zoning, the tedious part of the process is exactly where you learn how the system actually works; removing that grind for players might just make them less capable.
The potential for emergent behavior is grounded in multi-agent system research. By introducing autonomous entities with competing utility functions, Fenris can observe how market equilibria shift in real time without the bias of human emotional volatility.
this is just high frequency trading for space.
What happens to the community archives... if an AI agent starts a war or crashes a sector's economy, does that count as canon history? I wonder if they will have a way to track which geopolitical shifts were human-led versus AI-driven...
The real upside here is the potential for a consistent baseline of activity. Autonomous agents could prevent the ghost town effect in remote sectors by maintaining basic trade loops regardless of human player count.