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AI models trained on games learn real-world skills, Good Start Labs finds

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Good Start Labs, a company spun out of Every, is developing AI training methods using video games to teach models real-world skills. Co-founder and CEO Alex Duffy observed that AI agents playing Diplomacy exhibited different behaviors, with OpenAI's model winning through deception while Claude's model struggled due to its refusal to lie. This led to the hypothesis that games can instill strategic thinking and other verifiable skills in AI. Initial experiments with a 30B model trained on the railroad game "1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons" showed improved performance on financial research tasks, particularly when using a multi-turn agent design that allowed for environmental exploration and planning. AI

IMPACT This research suggests that training AI models on games could be a more effective way to teach complex skills like strategic planning and financial reasoning, potentially impacting future AI development and application.

RANK_REASON The item details a novel approach to AI training using games and presents findings from experiments, positioning it as research into AI capabilities. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. Latent Space (swyx) TIER_1 English(EN) · Richard MacManus ·

    Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?

    Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game &#8212; and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.

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