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ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES: SIMULATING THE MADNESS OF THE CROWD

Somewhere in the neon jungle of San Francisco, where the tech elite swap dreams for data and the air crackles with venture capital, two lunatics have built a machine that predicts the unpredictable: human behavior at scale.

Artificial Societies is no ordinary startup—it’s a high-voltage crystal ball for the digital age, a psychotropic AI engine that warps reality before reality even happens.

Their creation doesn’t just model consumers—it conjures entire civilizations in silicon, simulating their whims, vices, and desires before the first ad dollar is ever spent.

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THE MINDS BEHIND THE MACHINE

Co-founder James He wasn’t raised in the plush halls of privilege. He clawed his way from rural China to Cambridge University at 14, a lone gambler at the high-stakes poker table of academia.

Before Artificial Societies, he built lending machine learning systems at Yonder, diving into the financial underbelly where algorithms decided who was worthy of credit—and who wasn’t.

His partner in crime, Patrick Sharpe, comes armed with an MSc in behavioral economics and the scars of over 200 real-world experiments for Fortune 500 giants. If you’ve ever fallen victim to a persuasive marketing campaign that felt a little too targeted, chances are Sharpe’s fingerprints were all over it.

Together, these two aren’t just studying human behavior—they’re engineering it.

WHY IT MATTERS

Before Artificial Societies, market research was a bloody, inefficient battlefield—surveys, focus groups, and blind guesses disguised as “data-driven” decisions. But what if you could skip the bloodbath?

What if you could simulate the entire human experience—consumer reactions, viral trends, brand loyalty—all before launching a single campaign?

That’s exactly what Artificial Societies does.

With over 3,000 simulations and 2.6 billion LLM tokens processed, their AI has become a synthetic oracle, a twisted reflection of humanity that lets decision-makers see the future before it unfolds.

They claim their tech is four times more accurate than ChatGPT at predicting virality—a terrifying thought, considering how fast AI-driven content already infects the digital bloodstream.

THE FRENZY

It’s no surprise that 200 businesses are already clawing at the gates to get their hands on this thing.

The funding round? Oversubscribed.

The demand? Rabid.

CEOs, marketers, strategists—everybody with a product, a message, or a movement to peddle wants in. Why? Because whoever controls the simulation controls the reality.

The implications are immense. Forget simple A/B testing—this is A/B testing on amphetamines.

With Artificial Societies, you don’t launch a campaign and hope it works. You run a thousand campaigns in a digital Petri dish, dissect the results, and deploy only what works.

This isn’t just market research—it’s market premonition. And in a world where attention is the most valuable currency, knowing what people will love (or loathe) before they do? That’s goddamn gold.

FINAL VERDICT

In the right hands, this tech is a revolution. In the wrong hands, it’s a weapon. Either way, Artificial Societies is rewiring the game, and they’re doing it with the cold precision of a Vegas card counter. Whether you’re a startup founder, a hedge fund overlord, or a political strategist looking for an edge, one thing is certain:

You’d better hope you’re playing the game—and not being played by it.

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