Knowing about a body is not learning from one: a pilot study of a language-model agent with artificial interoception
A small language model given an artificial body used what it already knew about bodies, but over ten nights of self-training did not learn anything new from its own. We gave Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct an agent body in a simple survival world. The body had energy and integrity, which were reported in text (T), injected along...