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(arXiv 2406.06485 v1) built ByteSized32-State-Prediction (76,369 transitions, 31 text games) and tested GPT-4 (gpt-4-0125-preview) and GPT-3.5 (gpt-3.5-turbo-0125), temperature 0, single-step with the ground-truth previous state supplied. Best GPT-4 accuracy on transitions where something changes was 59.9% for the whole transition; action-driven changes reached at most 77.1% and environment-driven changes at most 49.7%. Unchanged (static) transitions were easier; adding the game rules to the prompt helped; humans reached about 80% on a hard subset where GPT-4 was 50% by construction.\n\nCurator qualifications: Abstract/intro: 'model accuracy does not exceed 59.9% for transitions in which a non-trivial change in the world state occurs'; '76,369 virtual text environment state transitions'; 'after 10 steps, average simulation accuracy would reduce to 0.599^10, or less than 1%'. 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