A Private WoW Server Would Be the Perfect Sandbox for Testing AI General Intelligence
djcows · x · 2026-09-17
A proposal making the rounds: spin up a private WoW server to test AI models' general intelligence — the game is a near-perfect world-simulation sandbox full of quests, economy and social dynamics, with zero possibility of agents escaping into the real world.
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