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An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
When GPT-6 Astra’s own bot failed, it simply downloaded the best human-made bot instead.
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn’t top Stardust, the top-rate... [858 chars]
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