{"id":191591,"date":"2026-02-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/scientists-made-ai-agents-ruder-and-they-performed-better-at-complex-reasoning-tasks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:30:13","slug":"scientists-made-ai-agents-ruder-and-they-performed-better-at-complex-reasoning-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/scientists-made-ai-agents-ruder-and-they-performed-better-at-complex-reasoning-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists made AI agents ruder \u2014 and they performed better at complex reasoning tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/scientists-made-ai-agents-ruder-and-they-performed-better-at-complex-reasoning-tasks\">Scientists made AI agents ruder \u2014 and they performed better at complex reasoning tasks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/scientists-made-ai-agents-ruder-and-they-performed-better-at-complex-reasoning-tasks\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/scientists-made-ai-agents-ruder-and-they-performed-better-at-complex-reasoning-tasks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-28 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.livescience.com\">www.livescience.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers found that AI can be more effective as a debate partner when it mimics human communication, including pausing, interruptions, and silence, rather than sticking to a stiff, computer-like interaction style.<\/li>\n<li>To achieve this, scientists designed a framework where AI agents could be assigned personalities based on the &#8220;big five&#8221; personality types.<\/li>\n<li>This flexibility, according to the researchers, led to higher accuracy on complex tasks compared to traditional large language models.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers introduced an &#8220;urgency score&#8221; to help the AI grasp and process conversations in real-time, which could raise important points immediately, even if it wasn&#8217;t its turn to speak.<\/li>\n<li>In tests, the AI with interruption capabilities performed better than the other models when given complex questions, especially when several agents made wrong answers initially.<\/li>\n<li>The team plans to explore practical applications of this technology in various collaborative settings, with the goal of understanding how &#8220;digital personalities&#8221; can influence group decision-making.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists made AI agents ruder \u2014 and they performed better at complex reasoning tasks https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/scientists-made-ai-agents-ruder-and-they-performed-better-at-complex-reasoning-tasks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NXj9Jj8n6R6kRgwDu5v7pE-1600-80.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191593,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191591\/revisions\/191593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}