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GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow

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  1. aeturnum · · focus · HN ↗
    Crazy! I can't imagine what WoW would be like with bots! Another new frontier broken open for AI lol.

    Joking aside it is interesting to see that a general model can adapt to a world like this, but I think the contrast between the model being "naive" and then needing to build special-purpose code to allow it to interact somewhat begs the question of the experiment. Customization will always be needed so how interesting is it that an un-customized model can play with a highly customized harness?

    1. gritzko · · focus · HN ↗
      Last weekend, I made Claude play Panzer General II. I am pretty sure it will be in the weights soon, so it was valuable as an environment the LLM is not trained for. It accumulated experience in Markdown, made some tools to parse the game data and it got to a decent level of skill. It reached the last battle.

      I tried to make it win the last battle, but that was beyond its ability. Further accumulation of "hard earned lessons" in Markdown only made its behavior more chaotic.

      Still, a very decent result, comparable to what I achieved back in the day (late 90s).

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