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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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[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Mind you, stealing the internet worked because they effectively had the sum total of human knowledge as a training set. I don't think that there's nearly as much detailed data on the minutiae of running a business.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 4 points 17 hours ago

Especially not when they blame its mistakes on “limited context window” AKA learning disability.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

You mean like the emails and archived chats of said business?