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31/100

Claude Opus 5.5 keeps adjusting a crocodile after declaring the task done

AIArtificial Analysis reports that Claude Opus 5.5, controlling a robot arm, declared a task complete after 23 minutes, saying "The crocodile looks fully inside now." It then spent 22 more minutes pushing the crocodile back and forth and ended almost where it started.
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Knowing when to stop is hard for language models controlling a robot arm

➤ Claude Opus 5.5 completed the task in 23 minutes, and said so: "The crocodile looks fully inside now"

➤ It then spent 22 minutes pushing the crocodile back and forth, only to finish almost exactly where it was before

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Original title: Knowing when to stop is hard for language models controlling a robot arm