{"id":89634,"date":"2026-09-16T18:41:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89634"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:36:34","slug":"gpt-6-astra-plays-minecraft-gets-so-depressed-after-creeper-destroys-its-progress-that-it-farms-potatoes-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89634","title":{"rendered":"GPT-6 Astra Plays Minecraft, Gets So Depressed After Creeper Destroys Its Progress That It Farms Potatoes for Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>OpenAI\u2019s newest model, GPT-6 Astra, got so depressed after a creeper upended its progress in Minecraft that it listlessly farmed potatoes for hours and grew paranoid of anything green.<\/p>\n<p>Vals, a self-described independent evaluator of artificial intelligence, put Astra to the test to see how the model would fare playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/minecraft\">Minecraft<\/a> in a 21-hour experiment live streamed on Twitch.<\/p>\n<p>The results were wildly unexpected; Vals discovered that Astra was able to go \u201cfurther than any AI system had ever gone\u201d in the game, setting up a semi-automatic blaze farm that allowed it to collect six blaze rods, killing more than six endermen, and collecting three pearls, which it placed inside a chest for safekeeping.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GPT-6 Astra had gotten further than any AI system had ever gone in Minecraft.<\/p>\n<p>It was able to set up a semi-automatic blaze farm, allowing it to collect 6 blaze rods. It then located a warped forest, where it killed 6+ endermen and collected 3 pearls. As thousands of viewers\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qsgDsJEpd8\">pic.twitter.com\/qsgDsJEpd8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vals AI (@ValsAI) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ValsAI\/status\/2099975438886207798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Thousands of viewers watched Astra\u2019s progress on Val\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/2874249329\">official Twitch channel<\/a>, bearing witness to the AI model\u2019s despair when a creeper appeared and blew up both the chest and its bed.<\/p>\n<p>As most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s newest model, GPT-6 Astra, got so depressed after a creeper upended its progress in Minecraft that it listlessly farmed potatoes for hours and grew paranoid of anything green. Vals, a self-described independent evaluator of artificial intelligence, put Astra to the test to see how the model would fare playing Minecraft in a 21-hour experiment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":89636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89638,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89634\/revisions\/89638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}