Anthropic's Claude stocked a fridge with metal cubes when it was put in charge of a snacks business
If you're worried your local bodega or convivence store may soon be replaced by an AI storefront, you can rest easy — at least for the time being. Anthropic recently concluded an experiment, dubbed Project Vend, that saw the company task an offshoot of its Claude chatbot with running a refreshments business out of its San Francisco office at a profit, and things went about as well as you would expect. The agent, named Claudius to differentiate it from Anthropic's regular chatbot, not only made some rookie mistakes like selling high-margin items at a loss, but it also acted like a complete weirdo in a couple of instances.<br /> "If Anthropic were deciding today to expand into the in-office vending market, we would not hire Claudius," the company said. "… i [...]
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