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  • will noone claim the Rick and Morty reference? I've seen that show like, once and somehow I know this?
    by zzzeek
  • I have a cat that will never fail to find the butter. Will it bring you the butter? Ha ha, of course not.
    by Finnucane
  • The most surprising thing is that 5% of humans apparently failed this task! Where are they finding these test subjects?!
    by Reason077
  • I guess I'm very confused as to why just throwing an LLM at a problem like this is interesting. I can see how the LLM is great at decomposing user requests into commands. I had great success with this on a personal assistant project I helped prototype. The LLM did a great job of understanding user intent and even extracting parameters regarding the requested task.

    But it seems pretty obvious to me that after decomposition and parameterization, coordination of a complex task would much better be handled by a classical AI algorithm like a planner. After all, even humans don't put into words every individual action which makes up a complex task. We do this more while first learning a task but if we had to do it for everything, we'd go insane.

    by DubiousPusher
  • Putting aside success at the task, can someone explain why this emerging class of autonomous helper-bots is so damn slow? I remember google unveiled their experiments in this recently and even the sped-up demo reels were excruciating to sit through. We generally think of computers as able to think much faster than us, even if they are making wrong decisions quickly, so what's the source of latency in these sytems?
    by ghostly_s
  • I wonder whether that LLM has actually lost its mind so to speak or was just attempting to emulate humans who lose their minds?

    Or to put it another way, if the writings of humans who have lost their minds (and dialogue of characters who have lost their minds) were entirely missing from the LLM’s training set, would the LLM still output text like this?

    by ummonk
  • 95% for humans. Who failed to get the butter?
    by koeng
  • The internal dialog breakdowns from Claude Sonnet 3.5 when the robot battery was dying are wild (pages 11-13): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.21860
    by lukeinator42

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