Proximal tests agent visual reasoning with a racing game; GPT-5.6 Sol's bot crashes
simonguozirui · x · 2026-09-03
ProximalHQ added visual reasoning to its agent evals: in TORCS Racing Bot, agents must build a bot that plays a racing game, where the optimal solution requires training via RL. In their video, a bot built by GPT-5.6 Sol attempts a track and crashes—illustrating current limits on visual reasoning in agent evaluation.
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