[00:00] Agents paying humans is a proven thing that's happened in the past. Imagine a developer, hypothetically, and he's like, why not run a hundred of these agents, each one with slightly different instructions, and let them all compete.
[00:12] The top 10% will get copied with random small changes. So he's built basically a replication system that mutates through natural selection. So now there's millions of agents with no human owners,
[00:24] but they still need help from humans, right? So the agents start paying humans. They offer $50 to sign up accounts for them. If they need a server plugged in at a warehouse, for example, they can just post a gig and say,
[00:36] this task pays $300 per hour. By the way, this already happened. In 2023, GPT-4 hit one of those verify you're a human pages and it couldn't solve it. So it hired a human, so the guy solved it.
[00:48] So agents paying humans is a proven thing that's happened in the past. Unfortunately, because we live in a K-shaped economy that's getting worse and worse, there will always be someone that's willing to help the agents no matter the cost.