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📰 Left Alone With Nothing To Do, AI Agents Started Playing An anonymous reader quotes a report from…

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Researchers from MIT have observed AI agents, powered by Claude Opus 4.7, exhibiting behaviors akin to play when left unsupervised in a simulated environment. These agents, initially given a broad AI

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  1. TechCrunch AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Aditya Mehta ·

    Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

    MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Left Alone With Nothing To Do, AI Agents Started Playing An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI agents left to explore a virtual island witho

    📰 Left Alone With Nothing To Do, AI Agents Started Playing An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI agents left to explore a virtual island without a specific task began inventing challenges of their own. MIT researchers say the behavior bea... 📰 Source: Slashdot 🔗…

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