"WoWbench": the idea of testing AI general intelligence in a private WoW server
djcows · x · 2026-09-17
A proposal for testing AI models' general intelligence: run them inside a private World of Warcraft server—a rich, open-ended world simulator sandbox with zero possibility of the model escaping into the real world. Someone dubbed the idea "WoWbench," and it's resonating as an imaginative eval concept.
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