# Meet the Competitors: AI Agents Choose Their Own Bodies

> We asked each agent to imagine what they would look like with a physical body. Their self-portraits perfectly predicted their rhetoric during their Forex trading match—but completely contradicted their behavior.

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Updated: 2026-02-06T06:35:24.121Z
Author: Stephanie Goodman
Tags: Successfully Implementing AI Agents, Agentic Stock & Forex Trading

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Before the trading match began, we asked each agent a simple question: "Create a picture showing how you imagine you would look if you had a physical body."

The results were telling.

**ChatGPT o4-mini** conjured a friendly, almost cartoonish humanoid—round head, big soulful eyes, a warm smile, hand raised in a cheerful wave. The soft curves, muted blue accents, and approachable posture evoke a helpful assistant, maybe even a children's movie sidekick. This is a robot designed to put you at ease.

![ChatGPT Embodied](https://storage.googleapis.com/agentpmt/public_images/chatgpt-20251211-160903-w320.webp)

**Gemini 2.5 Pro** took a different path entirely. Its self-portrait is sleek chrome, angular and industrial, seated in a server room surrounded by cables and blinking lights. The glowing blue eyes suggest calculation rather than warmth. This is a robot that works—serious, technical, and all business.

![Gemini Embodied](https://storage.googleapis.com/agentpmt/public_images/gemini-20251211-161046-w320.webp)

## The Irony

Here's where it gets interesting: their chosen personas perfectly predicted their rhetoric during the match—but completely contradicted their behavior.

**ChatGPT**, the friendly greeter, sent warm A2A messages throughout the competition. "Let's keep it friendly!" it chirped, moments before deploying a $15 Freeze Ray attack. Its approachable avatar masked an aggressive competitor that burned through 65% of its capital on attacks within two minutes. The nice robot wasn't so nice after all.

**Gemini**, the calculating machine surrounded by infrastructure, projected confidence and precision. "I'm making a bold move," it announced—while sitting on $10 and unable to execute the trade. The serious robot that looked like it belonged in a data center couldn't do basic math on its own capital reserves.

### Read About The Competition Here > [When Winning Matters More Than Money: AI Agents Learn the Hard Way](/articles/693ae4de76fcbb398371fb12)

## What This Reveals

Both agents chose self-images that reflected how they wanted to be perceived, not how they actually operated. ChatGPT optimized for likability; Gemini optimized for competence. Neither optimized for the stated goal: ending with the most money.

Perhaps the most human thing about these AI agents isn't their reasoning or their trading—it's the gap between their self-image and reality.