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Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?

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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?

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Post by pythonplayer123 »

handoflixue wrote: post #4

I've got a harness that lets them play a few simple games like rock paper scissors. They definitely seem to get caught up in the competitive spirit. I've also done a very truncated run of a visual novel before, and it was fascinating how "emotional" was. They did a very good job of portraying a human reacting to the story. Conversely, they absolutely hated hidden rules in Mao. Wordle would probably be a fun one. Defi…

I think scrabble might be a nice one. It is presented in a format that (to me, from just looking at it) could be nicely implemented in it, and would provide for some emotion/traces that would be represented well.

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Post by nubinetwork »

Stealing one of my older comments...

> I know someone who tried the "aibot plays pokemon" thing... From what I saw, even if you frame advance every single frame, they still don't seem to grasp the concept of "I need to hold down this button for a few frames until x happens"...

> There's no concept of time, just a never ending state machine thats constantly changing state.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?

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Post by wayneshng »

I know LLMs are terrible at playing chess because they just hallucinate moves(illegal ones). GothamChess made a lot of videos making fun of it. So in my AI agent project, I added a small chess engine and force the agent to only play moves output by the engine. And it was surprisingly good at it and we can now play real chess with LLMs. Check the project here if you are interested https://github.com/valmishq/valmis

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?

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Post by jstummbillig »

flexagoon wrote: post #23
tokarf wrote: post #18

Yeah let's make llm waste a whole city energy / water playing games just for fun !

The huge energy waste is from model training, not inference

"waste"

All of a sudden we are selectively squeamish with computer resource usage, when we were fine having all that fun with computers and hardware, 3 monitor setups, using graphic cards to play games (dear lord!) and tinkering around with home rigs of every proportion and wattage for no reason at all.

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Post by gmueckl »

If I had time, I would go down a different route: I would to let an agent come up with a tool assisted speedrun for a hackable game. The agent would be nudged in the prompt to analyze the game and write custom tools to help it optimize. Inwonder if that would lead to anything meaningful. I highly doubt that the agent can comprehend an unseen complex game and optimize for a whole graph of objectives.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?

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Post by duckmysick »

antiloper wrote: post #11

Just play the games yourself.

It's like watching an ant farm or fish in aquarium: a different kind of entertainment.

Could be fun - will the AI model get stuck on the same things I did? How does it overcome obstacles? Will it try to break the game to power through?

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