c/technology · by MdRuckus@lemmy.world · 245d

Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34

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dermanus@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 245d (2 replies)

This is absolutely amazing

Investigations reporter Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University.

After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots. Claudius ironically declared an Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All.

I can't wait for the next generation of phreakers to usurp AI for fun and profit.

state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 245d

Katherine Long sounds great. Her second attack, with fake board meeting notes is so dedicated.

drre@feddit.org · 2 pts · 245d

love the reference

atrielienz@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 245d (2 replies)

It did what now? What the hell is this title?

"We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars."

Is the actual title. What gives?

commanderschlepper@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 245d (1 reply)

That's the subheading of the same article. Am I missing a joke? I definitely agree they chose the more click baity option of the two lol

atrielienz@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 244d

Lack of context for what was being discussed, mostly. No joke I read this without context and was very confused (and I had already read a similar article about this event).

kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com · 25 pts · 245d

i take it back. pls put ai in the vending machines i would like a free ps5

tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 245d (2 replies)

Anyone getting flashbacks the cyberpunk and the AI vending machine?

https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Brendan

_stranger_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 245d

Brendan was a friend and a hero, how dare you.

dbtng@eviltoast.org · 5 pts · 244d

How could you not?

boatswain@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 245d

https://archive.is/I1lyh

Jason2357@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 245d

Corporate AI criticism always ends up being AI boosterism. This is just a way to laugh at “early” AI’s mistakes while implying that it will get good any day now.