Frontier LLMs Lack Theory of Mind, Developer Calls for Targeted RL Training
lateinteraction · x · 2026-08-12
A developer points out that current frontier LLMs are upsettingly bad at "theory of mind," struggling to put themselves in the shoes of anyone, including their past or future selves. They suggest adding specific environments for this capability in the reinforcement learning (RL) phase of next-gen models, believing it to be quite RL-able.
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