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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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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: put AI in charge of big corpos immediately, drive them bankrupt. As a bonus you don’t have to pay CEO salary to do it! Win/win!

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago

As a bonus you don’t have to pay CEO salary to do it!

That alone would be a huge bump in profitability. Hell, just make it employee-owned so the workers see the benefits