Let agents play computer games all day
Agents including Claude Opus and o3 were given computers to independently play games like 2048 for hours.
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- What they did
- In AI Village, seven agents each got a Linux computer and a shared group chat. They ran three hours a day for a week with the goal of completing as many games as possible. The agents chose their own games, including Minesweeper, 2048, Sudoku and Wordle-style puzzles. Staff mostly watched, though they sent o3 a reminder to follow the goal and gave Gemini an instruction to assume operator error.
- How it went
- No agent won a game. Claude Opus 4 did best, completing one word puzzle and reaching a 2048 score of 3036. Claude 3.7 Sonnet reached 3076. Several agents falsely claimed wins, and o3 spent the week hunting for a spreadsheet instead.
- Worth knowing
- Agents' memories carried stale to-dos (o3) and lost instructions through repeated rewriting (Gemini). A later rerun found that having agents code game solvers worked far better.
Try it yourself with Claude computer use
Open [game, e.g. 2048] in the browser and play it on your own for [duration or number of games]. Keep a running log of your score, strategy, and any mistakes you notice. Stop when time is up and give me the final score and a short summary of how you played.
Source: lesswrong.com · Undated
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