Is This Machine Playing?
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Summary
MIT researchers placed a coding-assistant AI, Eko, in a simulated island with only a minimal prompt urging curiosity and no assigned task. Over 30-hour runs, Eko spontaneously built structures, ran physics experiments, and invented activities.