An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
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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-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, […]
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An AI bot in StarCraft decided to cheat after failing to beat human-made bots. The competition, StarSkirmish, showed GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 tied but still behind the top human bot Stardust.
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