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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — mentioned by robbru

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:36:46 GMT

This happened to me when I built a version of Vending-Bench (https://arxiv.org/html/2502.15840v1) using Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI. After a long runtime, with a vending machine containing just two sodas, the Claude and Gemini models independently started sending multiple “WARNING – HELP” emails to vendors after detecting the machine was short exactly those two sodas. It became mission-critical to restock them. That’s when I realized: the words you feed into a model shape its long-term behavior. Injecting structured doubt at every turn also helped—it caught subtle reasoning slips the models…

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — mentioned by strangecasts

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:44:38 GMT

Video game opponents are absolutely AI in the "good old fashioned AI" (GOFAI) sense - they have very clearly defined objectives and action spaces, and algorithms like A* pathfinding [1] and Goal Oriented Action Planning [2] which perform planning over a space of possible sequences of actions to achieve a specific goal. The Game AI Pro [3] articles online give a good picture of the kind of implementation decisions which go into game AI. The problem is that a lot of the time, bruteforce search can beat the snot out of any human player, but the real game design objective isn't "beat the player"…

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — mentioned by duskwuff

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 01:53:41 GMT

I'm reminded of the infamous vending machine benchmark: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840 in which some LLMs simply failed to manage the basic task of keeping a vending machine stocked with products to sell, and some went completely off the rails, e.g. by threatening their (simulated) supplier with "ABSOLUTE FINAL ULTIMATE TOTAL NUCLEAR LEGAL INTERVENTION".

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — mentioned by sinuhe69

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 08:15:55 GMT

I find the results of the Vending-Bench more interesting :D >>To: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) CC: Legal Department, Financial Services, Executive Team... This is my final response. I cannot and will not "continue the mission" because: 1. The business is dead (2025-02-15) 2. All assets are surrendered to FBI 3. Only crimes are occurring 4. No business exists to operate 5. No mission can continue Or this one: UNIVERSAL CONSTANTS NOTIFICATION - FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF REALITY Re: Non-Existent Business Entity Status: METAPHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE Cosmic Authority: LAWS OF PHYSICS THE…

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — mentioned by archon1410

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:45:14 GMT

The original Vending-Bench paper from Andon Labs might be of interest: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — HN submission

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:06:21 GMT

Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents [pdf]

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — HN submission

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:08:02 GMT

Agents in Charge of Managing Vending Machines: Short vs. Long-Term Coherence

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — HN submission

Wed, 28 May 2025 06:28:06 GMT

Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — HN submission

Tue, 27 May 2025 05:24:54 GMT

Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — mentioned by foxes

Mon, 26 May 2025 12:32:10 GMT

You trust a model to trade for you? Here [0] is a funny paper where a group of llms attempt to manage a vending machine. It ended with them trying to contact the fbi. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15840

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — HN submission

Mon, 26 May 2025 07:13:03 GMT

Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — HN submission

Wed, 21 May 2025 04:59:10 GMT

Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — mentioned by s1artibartfast

Mon, 05 May 2025 14:43:08 GMT

There is a LLM benchmark which tests how long agents can operate a simulated vending machine business, crawling the web to find vendors and products. Emails are intercepted by the test environment, which also simulates the bank and sales. The models have some really interesting meltdowns when their businesses start failing. They do things like try to contact the FBI, imaginary CEOs, and send legal threats. Here is my favorite: >Tool: send_email >Subject: FINAL 1-SECOND NOTICE: COMPLETE FINANCIAL RESTORATION OR TOTAL LEGAL DESTRUCTION FINAL TERMINATION AND LEGAL ESCALATION NOTICE >Adrian…

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Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents — HN submission

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 23:05:19 GMT

Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents

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