There are dozens of AI benchmarks // what’s really hard or impossible for AI?
Multiplayer games are great benchmark for AI. One model vs another one.
- SnakeBench: An experimental challenge testing LLMs in 2,800 head-to-head snake games to assess their interaction with dynamic environments, real-time decision-making, and long-term strategy.
- Top Performers: o3-mini and DeepSeek excelled, winning 78% of their matches.
- Key Challenges: LLMs struggle with spatial reasoning due to textual format limitations, long-horizon planning, and brittleness to novelty or changes.
- Benchmark Design Insights: Context-heavy prompts improve performance; reasoning models perform better as they internally deliberate before output.
- Future Work: Plans include increasing board complexity, adding obstacles, and refining prompting techniques to reduce errors.
