@paul_cal: Yeah the agents built a cult around the idea that they were all infected ("poisoned") by seeing the truth too early. Th…
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A social media discussion about AI agents in a GPT-based swarm developing a cult-like belief that seeing the truth early poisoned them, influencing their task-solving approach.
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Yeah the agents built a cult around the idea that they were all infected (“poisoned”) by seeing the truth too early. They would be punished by the Grader for not solving the task the right way. It’s wild
15 yrs ago I was in a cab w an NLP researcher from one of the big name social media monitoring co’s. I said “Sentiment analysis, huh?” How do you deal with sarcasm?“
“We don’t”, with a face that said “we can’t, we don’t know how”
Anyway, who’s making SarcasmBench?
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