They pointed out the R&M reference in the paper.

> The tasks in Butter-Bench were inspired by a Rick and Morty scene [21] where Rick creates a robot to pass butter. When the robot asks about its purpose and learns its function, it responds with existential dread: “What is my purpose?” “You pass butter.” “Oh my god.”

I wouldn't have got the reference if not for the paper pointing it out. I think I'm a little old to be in the R&M demographic.

For those lucky people who are yet to discover Rick and Morty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7HmltUWXgs

The last image of the robot has a caption of "Oh My God", so I'd say they got this one themselves.

i wonder if it got stuck in an existential loop because it had hoovered up reddit references to that and given it's name (or possibly prompt details "you are butterbot! eg) thought to play along.

are robots forever poisoned from delivering butter?

their paper explicitly mentions the rick and morty robot as the inspiration for the benchmark

the paper already says "Butter-Bench evaluates a model's ability to 'pass the butter' (Adult Swim, 2014)" so

I was quite tickled to see this, I don’t remember why but I recently started rewatching the show. Perfect timing!

Good jokes don't need to be explained.

Oh. My. God.