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AI recreates Borges's Library of Babel with multiplayer features

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Ethan Mollick has created an interactive web application on Bluesky that implements Jorge Luis Borges's "The Library of Babel." The application, named Fable, was completed posthumously by Opus 4.8 and is noted for its accuracy to the original story. It features multiplayer functionality where users appear as ghosts and allows for the discovery of significant volumes, such as the weights of GPT-1 and the code for the Library simulation itself. AI

IMPACT This interactive application demonstrates novel uses of AI in creative and literary contexts, potentially inspiring new forms of digital storytelling and engagement with classic literature.

RANK_REASON The item describes an interactive web application that uses AI, but it is not a frontier model release, significant industry move, or academic research.

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AI recreates Borges's Library of Babel with multiplayer features

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  1. Bluesky Jetstream — AI desk TIER_1 English(EN) · emollick.bsky.social ·

    Fable's implementation of Borges's Library of Babel, finished posthumously by Opus 4.8. Quite accurate to the story.

    Fable's implementation of Borges's Library of Babel, finished posthumously by Opus 4.8. Quite accurate to the story. It is multiplayer (others appear as ghosts). You can locate key volumes, like the weights of GPT-1 & the code to the Library sim itself: borges-library-of-babel.n…

    LINKS borges-library-of-babel.netlify.app

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