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 bears the hallmarks of play. The researchers put 13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours.... Weiterlesen: Left Alone With Nothing To Do, AI Agents Started Playing