Four AI Agents Have Slain Minecraft’s Ender Dragon - Gizmodo

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Today in news about stuff that AI agents have done that is relatively benign and/or at least does not involve hacking the government-funded healthcare system in my home country: beating Minecraft! Perhaps the most interesting detail that jumps out from a cursory glance at the paper’s summary is that the agents “wrote a total of 2,783 JavaScript programs. ” If you find yourself wondering why the agents would be writing JavaScript programs at all, you’ll find the paper to be an interesting read. As the paper itself notes, these are general-purpose coding agents.

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