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Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the 'vending machine test' - and we may want to be worried about how it did (news.sky.com)
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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Well… it’s been trained on data with years of vending machine tests. 

I’m not surprised it guess it was being tested.