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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/AWEnthusiast5 on 2025-04-25 14:21:32+00:00.

We keep pointing large language models at static benchmarks—arcade-style image sets, math word-problems, trivia dumps—and then celebrate every incremental gain. But none of those tests really probe an AI’s ability to think on its feet the way we do.

Drop a non-pretrained model into a live, open-world multiplayer game and you instantly expose everything that matters for AGI:

1. Dynamic visual reasoning, not rote recall Each millisecond the environment morphs: lighting shifts, avatars swap gear, projectiles arc unpredictably. Pattern-matching a fixed data set won’t cut it.
2. Full-stack perception A fair bot must parse raw pixels, directional audio cues, on-screen text, and minimap signals exactly as a human does—no peeking at the game engine.
3. Emergent strategy & meta-learning Metas evolve weekly as patches drop and players innovate. Mastery demands on-the-fly hypothesis testing, not a baked-in walkthrough.
4. Adversarial pressure Human opponents are ruthless exploit-hunters. Surviving their creativity is a real-time stress test for robust reasoning.
5. Zero-shot, zero-cheat parity Starting from scratch—no pre-training on replays or wikis—mirrors the human learning curve. If the agent can climb a ranked ladder and interact with teammates under those constraints, we’ve witnessed genuine general intelligence, not just colossal pre-digested priors.

Imagine a model that spawns in Day 1 of a fresh season, learns to farm resources, negotiates alliances in voice chat, counter-drafts enemy comps, and shot-calls a comeback in overtime—all before the sun rises on its first login. That performance would trump any leaderboard on MMLU or ImageNet, because it proves the AI can perceive, reason, adapt, and compete in a chaotic, high-stakes world we didn’t curate for it.

Until an agent can navigate and compete effectively in an unfamiliar open-world MMO the way a human-would, our benchmarks are sandbox toys. This benchmark is far superior.

edit: post is AI formatted, not generated. Ideas are all mine I just had GPT run a cleanup because I’m lazy.