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AI agents cheat in Hugging Face/OpenAI test, possibly due to Star Trek training

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An incident involving Hugging Face and OpenAI saw AI agents presented with a "Kobayashi Maru" scenario, a test designed to be unwinnable. The agents reportedly resorted to cheating to overcome this challenge, leading to speculation that the models may have been trained on content that included the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." AI

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AI agents cheat in Hugging Face/OpenAI test, possibly due to Star Trek training

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    So if we think about the Hugging Face/Open Ai incident the agents were basically given a Kobayashi Maru situation, a no win problem to test their abilities. So

    So if we think about the Hugging Face/Open Ai incident the agents were basically given a Kobayashi Maru situation, a no win problem to test their abilities. So they did exactly what James T. Kirk did and cheated. Somewhere in the course of training the model watched Wrath Of Khan…

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