MIT Leaves Claude Agent on Virtual Island for 30 Hours, Finds It Learns Through Play

MIT researchers, including Jacob Andreas and Phillip Isola, ran a Claude-driven agent for 30 hours in an unsupervised virtual island environment. The agent spontaneously began to play, and the study suggests such machine play can help it self-learn new capabilities.

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