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AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”

AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
“What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone…”
— MIT Technology Review

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