'Defeated' GPT-6 Astra model spent several hours just farming potatoes after being blown up by a Creeper in Minecraft
By Stephen Warwick, Tom's Hardware
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An apparently sad and defeated GPT-6 Astra spent several hours doing nothing but farming potatoes during a 141-hour Minecraft benchmark test, after dying and losing all of its gear to an exploding Creeper. Vals AI records that while GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's latest frontier model, got further than any AI system had in its 141-hour test, the experiment did reveal a distinctly human lapse in motivation after all of its progress was wiped out by the destructive mob. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers The data center cooling state of play The custom AI ASIC state of play America’s AI chip rules keep changing — and the rest of the world is paying the price GTC 2026: Ian Buck press Q&A transcript — VP of Hyperscale and HPC…
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