AI researcher meme: writing evals is fun until it's the meaning of life
mayfer · x · 2026-10-29
An AI-circle meme: researchers are thrilled writing evals for tasks models can do, but despair upon realizing they'd have to write an eval for the meaning of life — poking fun at how eval-driven AI research breaks down when facing open-ended philosophical questions.
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