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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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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

When old memory of ordering stuff is out of the context window, she completely forgets what she has ordered in the past

Look I agree that AI is probably a terrible business manager… but this is irresponsible design on the researcher’s part. AI breaks past the context window with tool calling. If it doesn’t have a list inventory tool, it will obviously fail to do this correctly.

These techniques are built into virtually every coding harness today, if you’re not using them for a business harness, that’s negligent.