Making an AI Solve a Rubik's Cube Came Down to Describing State in Natural Language
gdechichi · x · 2026-09-22
Sharing details of the Rubik's Cube experiment: the author first fed the cube state directly to Jev and had it output a probability for each possible move, which failed hard. The key turned out to be a data representation problem — figuring out how to communicate the cube state in natural language so the decision-making AI could pick the right moves.
Related event: Dev Tests Decision AI 'Jev' Solving a Rubik's Cube Like a Human(5 posts)→
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