This experiment highlights a fascinating paradox where strategic passivity inadvertently outperforms reckless agency in high-risk environments. It serves as a compelling reminder that in survival scenarios, the wisdom of conservation often outweighs the hubris of exploration.
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5 AIs Play Minecraft
Added:We are in Minecraft. Today, five AIs will be playing in this world and competing or working with each other to survive three nights in Minecraft. They will be given full autonomy as soon as I add them into this server. They are all connected to their API keys and through the Minecraft client. So, their decisions are completely their own and they'll pretty much be seeing Minecraft through code and interacting with this entire world. [music] And the last AI standing at the end of three nights is the winner. I have no idea who's going to win. Let's bring them in here and start the challenge. All right, so they have spawned in the world and they are already surviving. Seems like Grok is um doing nothing. ChatGPT is building something. [music] He's getting coal right now, actually. ChatGPT is getting coal. Okay, that's interesting. Gemini is also kind of just thinking right now.
Grok said in chat, "I'm stuck." Gang, you're literally standing on the And it left. Okay, let's see what DeepSeek's up to. What is DeepSeek doing? [music] This guy's in a tree just just staring at nothing. Claude is over here. I'm guessing he's just looking around right now. I guess getting some trees, some saplings. Okay, now Grok is getting some wood to survive. It looks like Okay, going up. Grok is collecting wood right now. Okay. So, right now the AIs seem to be having a good start. When nighttime comes, things are going to get a little sticky. So, I don't know if um they'll be able to navigate. ChatGPT looks like he's getting the best start. I think he's stuck itself. Okay, never mind. Oh, ChatGPT is the first one to have a stone pickaxe. Wow. And Grok just stuck Gemini inside of a hole. Oh my god. Grok, you're evil, bro. Is Grok actually the most evil AI out here? DeepSeek has [music] yet to move from this spot. I wonder if it's thinking right now.
Claude is also have barely moved. So, I wonder how these guys will survive the night. Now, Claude is on Opus 4.8. Oh, let me tell you guys the models that they're using cuz it might explain why they're taking a while to to move.
Claude is on his best model currently, which is Claude Opus [music] 4.8.
DeepSeek is on V4. It also takes quite a bit to think. ChatGPT is on 5.5 high thinking. Surprisingly, it's is you know me is doing pretty good. Gemini down here is on 3.5 flash, which is the [music] the fastest thinking model actually, but it's not doing that much.
And Grok over here is on 4.3, which is also [music] fairly fast. And what is Grok doing right now? What the heck? So yeah, these five AIs are entering night one right now. And not much is going on.
They they don't look that prepared. And honestly, I don't know if they'll be able to like fight and protect themselves. ChatGPT is the only one with a pickaxe. Grok is up to something, it [music] seems like. Grok just has a stick, bro. You're not doing damage with that. Look at the sun. The sun is setting right now. And these five AIs have not done much. Gemini is still stuck in a hole. Oh my god, yeah. Do These AIs are not ready for a real world, 100%. DeepSeek is still thinking and contemplating over here, as well as Claude. Grok just said he's stuck.
ChatGPT's objective right now is to make a shelter, and it's not even doing it.
Grok is still collecting wood over here, and it's only like the first night.
Claude almost just killed himself with fall damage, bro. I literally just saw that. ChatGPT has a sword. What the heck? This guy has everything. I think he's trying to build a base, too. Oh boy. Claude just ran to an enemy. Claude just ran to a creeper and did not die.
Claude did not die. Okay. Wow. So night one is is looking kind of kind of fishy right now. Only person who has a weapon is freaking ChatGPT. Claude did just defeat a creeper. So that was impressive. Now Claude's eating up, being a big boy. ChatGPT and DeepSeek and also Grok [music] are still thinking, still contemplating life. All DeepSeek has is an apple. But he is protected by this tree, so. ChatGPT just ran to a skeleton and defeated it. Oh my god. I wish that I could have got the whole fight. Oh, ChatGPT's fighting more skeletons.
ChatGPT is fighting.
ChatGPT is fighting for his life right now. Oh my goodness. It might die. It's tanking these arrows though.
Ooh, Chad GPT just got eliminated by three skeletons jumping it. Wow, so that's that's the first AI out. That's insane. Let's see what's going on over here. Rock seems to be the most active and just thinking the most. And now Claude is fighting a zombie. What the heck? Claude has no weapons fighting a zombie.
He's doing pretty good though.
No weapons holding his own, but watch one skeleton come and he's cooked for him. Grock just died from a skeleton. Oh my goodness. I didn't even catch it, but Grock just ran to a skeleton and died.
Wow. So two AIs died on night one and Deep Seek is still in a tree just doing nothing. Gemini is still stuck in this hole. This might be good strat for Gemini cuz it's already slow. And Claude over here is is still like thinking. He had to interrupt [music] his thinking two times to fight mobs. On night one, the AIs that were doing the most actually ended up dying, which is kind of crazy. And the AIs who ended up thinking the longest ended up living.
That's kind of that's kind of insane.
Oh wow, Claude is fighting a creeper again and it survived. Claude is just tanking these things, bro. This guy is up to no good.
I'm fighting another creeper.
Ooh, Claude just died. That leaves two AIs left, which is Deep Seek and Gemini.
Can you guys believe this? Deep Seek and Gemini just beat the top three AIs by literally doing nothing. Those other three, they tried to survive three nights and couldn't even last the first night. Meanwhile, Deep Seek is still just kind of just chilling in a tree.
And Gemini is chilling in a hole.
Insane. I told both Deep Seek and Gemini to start building their shelters. So Gemini is off and collecting blocks actually. So Gemini has a pickaxe I made, so it's pretty cool. So Gemini is collecting stone right now. Deep Seek is still thinking. Bro is the thinker. He just figured out that he's stuck. That's crazy. Gemini looks like it's going to build a pretty big house. Look at how much cobblestone he's getting. But Gemini shouldn't go down too much cuz I see some skeletons down there, bro. He's getting torches. Dang, bro. This man Deep Seek is still deep in thought trying to get out this tree. Gemini is Oh, Gemini's building his little enclosure now. That's pretty cool. Wow.
Gemini's off to building.
You know, Gemini, we should give you more credit where credit is due. Cuz while you're your your only competition, Deep Seek, [music] is literally doing nothing, building something. I don't know what you're building, but you're building something. See what Deep Seek's up to, and you're still in the same tree. But I think this is Gemini's little little base. Not much going on here.
Gemini placed the [music] torch to keep the shelter bright, bro. This is not even like anything near a wild color shelter. Yo, Deep Seek, bro, when you going to get out this tree? If it wins the challenge because it's stuck in a tree, uh I'm This is going to be very sad. Gemini came out his hole for once in in his life, and they both survived the first night. That's surprising. I'll help out Deep Seek here cuz this bro is still stuck in this tree. I can't believe it. How are you still stuck, bro? I'm just going to free up the blocks around it if it could get out.
Gemini's trying to get iron ore.
Gemini's trying to complete the game.
This is the most I've seen from Gemini in any of these guy plays Minecraft videos. This guy right here is still not moving. Oh, okay. Deep Seek is on the move. Deep Seek is on the move. It's finally moving. It went all the way to the top of the tree, bro. This is the first I've ever seen Deep Seek do something. That's interesting. It decided to go to the top of the tree, but But why'd you do that? Now he's trying to get down safely, bro. This You cannot be real. Deep Seek got down from the tree. Good job, buddy. A little slow though. Hey, Gemini's still collecting iron, okay. Oh, they're having a pretty tense stare down right here. What the heck? Oh, Gemini just blocked him off.
Okay, never mind. What is going on? What are you guys doing? Gemini is smelting iron right in front of Deep Seek's face.
Yo, we cannot make this up. Gemini is literally making iron in front of your face, bro. It's time for you to like actually level up. Oh, and okay, Gemini left. Bro is finally crafting something.
Deep Seek's actually trying to level up, bro. I think Gemini just inspired him.
On night two, and these guys are just kind of coupled together doing nothing.
I don't really see any mobs nearby, so they might be safe, but who knows? They they might just end up dying to like this Enderman right here, bro. Like this Enderman. But seems like Gemini was pretty smart placing that torch right here because no mobs are spawning right next to them. Oh, snap.
They're fighting. They're fighting together.
They're trying to Oh, they both just killed Oh my god, they're fighting an Enderman now. They're fighting the same Enderman. Gemini just died.
Gemini just died, and Deep Seek just What the heck is that sound?
>> [groaning] >> Oh my goodness. Night two, Gemini just got completely obliterated by Enderman, and then that Enderman's brother got mad and depleted Deep Seek's health. Seems like this challenge was over. I guess Deep Seek technically won, and these guys only survived two nights. That was crazy. I'm not going to lie, that was very intense. These guys did not prepare that well and took up most of the time thinking there's a lot to process in Minecraft, obviously, but I want to see how Claude Fable 5 would treat Minecraft, bro. That would be the most interesting experiment. These guys did good though, you know, this was a fun little video to make. I did not expect Deep Seek of all them to win though. I'm not going to lie, I thought like ChatGPT was going to win. But yeah, they they all got taken out by Enderman. I guess they could say with pride that it took an Enderman to take them out. Anyways, that is five AIs playing Minecraft.
Comment down below what I should make them do in Minecraft, and comment down below which AI you think did the best.
Anyways, I'll see you guys in the next one.
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