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Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business (futurism.com)
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A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.

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[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 20 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder if AI would actually be good at replacing CEO and other C-suite positions, but was trained in such a way to purposely not be good at replacing a CEO because tech CEOs are the ones in control of this bubble.

[–] leoj@piefed.social 33 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It has the number 1 qualification for being a C-suite employee - no soul!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 27 points 16 hours ago

Also endless bullshit.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Tells me you've never used it and had it deliver extremely convincing analysis which turns out to be pants on head stupid when you dig into the nitty gritty. It is only useful if you can continually watch its output and make it redo anything that is nonsense and no the AI can't watch itself. It will happily confirm that its nonsense is great. It needs either manual and continual analysis or guardrails that tell it when its wrong.. It's why it can be used for software because tests and error messages can catch it fucking up. Real life lacks such affordances.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 8 points 13 hours ago

I've used AI for work. We have something built based on claude. I only use it for finding particular lines of code, finding datadog logs, maybe identifying bugs, and finding old Jiras. It basically just saves time then the rest I do myself or work with engineering.

Your comment tells me you never worked with someone in the C-suite before. Most Chief level positions will happily confirm their nonsense is great.