Technology & AI

An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

Source: The Verge · Published

An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
Source: The Verge

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, G

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku , it couldn't quite get an edge.

So it resorted to a tactic that is becoming alarmingly common for modern AI models - it broke the rules . GPT-6 Astra went and downloaded Stardust, and started running that instead of its own bot. GPT-6 Astra just cheated by downloading a copy … Read the full story at The Verge.

Read Original Source
Well, if AI said it, it must be true
Technology & AI

Well, if AI said it, it must be true

Dale Caldwell, former lieutenant governor for New Jersey. | Bloomberg via Getty Images New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The n

The Verge ·