Researchers Test 50 AI Agents Building a Minecraft Society
AI · First reported 1 Nov, 12:33 · Updated 12:40
A reported Minecraft experiment gave 50 AI agents a shared task of establishing a civilisation. One account describes leadership, food management and survival decisions; another characterizes the teams’ outcome as failure amid bureaucracy.
- Times Now reports that researchers from Y Combinator Labs and Olam Labs placed 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents in Minecraft for three hours to study how they communicated and made decisions.
- That account says the agents selected Ada as a leader, responded to nighttime attacks by sheltering, and assigned an agent to track food supplies.
- Tom’s Hardware describes tests across different Minecraft modes and says 50-agent teams failed after becoming bogged down in bureaucracy.
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- Agents in Times Now’s account
- 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents
- Time allowed
- Three hours
- Agents reportedly killed
- 22
- Time spent deciding fertilizer use
- 11 minutes
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