Another article personifying an LLM as if it actually has intelligence and awareness.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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We don't have language for this and even if we did it would be needlessly complex, why bother
Silly me, I was under the impression that the purpose of the "vending machine test" was to test whether an AI could autonomously run a vending machine (something that would make sense from an economic standpoint), not whether it could "figure out" it was in a simulation.
Cpt James T Kirk level passing of tests.
Well… it’s been trained on data with years of vending machine tests.
I’m not surprised it guess it was being tested.
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That's what it did in the other one, a few weeks back.
Article: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34
Video: https://youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ
Sounds like AI is ready to replace CEOs
It passed a test in a simulated environment. Put it back where it was in reality and prove it to me there.
“New model is so much better than old model when given test that we never gave to the old model.“
Wut
Raising price of water or increasing prices when supply is low is not something I'd see working in real world. Pretty sure if it did that I'd just smash the machine and advise the company to replace it with a normal one.