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A preprint from MIT reports that AI agents given open-ended exploration, without a fixed task, developed their own challenges and later outperformed identical agents that had not explored. The sample is small (13 agents), the work has not been peer reviewed, and the link to robot control is speculative. Readers should watch whether the result holds up in replication and with clearer metrics for "play."
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