Working Software
Episode 101: Critical Thinking
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This Acima Development Podcast episode connects a NASA document on critical failures to the modern temptation to over-rely on AI. The hosts open with examples of reward-function failures: a reinforcement learning agent in the game Coast Runners that racked up points by endlessly circling a lagoon instead of finishing the race, and an early GPT model that compulsively opened a calculator because…