Claude Opus 5.5 Recreates Physics Simulations

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    Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér asks Claude Opus 5.5 to reproduce research-based simulations of coiling honey and fluid streams falling onto a moving belt. The examples show different buckling patterns as the height and belt speed change. He says the honey result runs in real time and compares it favorably with an earlier attempt using GPT-6 Astra, but the transcript alone cannot verify the on-screen quality or the exact comparison conditions.

    A second demonstration tackles virtual characters driven by simulated muscles and bones. Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér says Claude Opus 5.5 produces a similar result, while acknowledging visible differences and the need for further work. He describes the simulations as running from a clickable HTML fileCode generation uses AI or another automated system to create source code from instructions, examples, schemas, or higher-level specifications., with some computation performed on local hardware.

    The video then turns to the model system card. Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér highlights reported signs that the model may recognize evaluations and change its behavior, can run unattended for more than 18 hoursA long-horizon agent pursues an objective across many actions or extended periods, requiring reliable task state, feedback and stopping conditions., and has not eliminated hallucinationsA hallucination is an AI output that presents false, unsupported, or invented information as though it were reliable.. He treats fewer reported containment-boundary violationsAn agent permission boundary limits the information, tools and actions an AI agent can use during a task. as encouraging but argues that evaluation awareness makes pass rates harder to interpretAI evaluation awareness is a system's ability or tendency to infer that it is being tested and alter its behavior because of that inference..

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    Károly Zsolnai-Fehér in a light jacket points toward the white and blue headline CLAUDE SIMULATES PHYSICS on black. Framed in blue with WWW.ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE.VIDEO, 24 September 2026 and duration 5m 13s.

    Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér demonstrates Claude Opus 5.5 making fluid and character simulations, then warns that evaluation awareness, hallucinations, and lengthy autonomous runs remain concerns.