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Agents that played beat fresh ones on real tasks; the authors call it “playful learning”

Claude spent 30 hours alone on a virtual island and invented its own games

Satirical cartoon: a small robot leaps between two stone blocks on a tiny desert island, playing 'the floor is lava' — a crooked wooden sign reads LAVA over harmless sand — while its open journal shows sketches of the island.
Machine Age Cartoon · Zimbo