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Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

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Re: Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

#11
These articles don't mean anything unless we get info about what steps humans needed to perform.

If the steps to hire an applicant are:

A human asks AI to write a job posting.

Human posts output.

Human gathers candidates.

Human asks AI "which of these 40 applicants should we hire".

Then an AI isn't managing the cafe at all. I am super dubious that they created some huge LLM orchestration context management monstrosity, gave it access to their bank account and then told it to go.

Re: Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

#12
If this isn’t satire, it’s super unethical.

The „experiment“ includes humans who are neither aware they are in an experiment nor have consented to it nor will be debriefed after it.

And one has to wonder if the whole thing is even fully legal? Emailing _the police_ with time wasting AI generated images seems risky…

Re: Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

#14

> Mona hired two baristas and now manages them via Slack. She (of course) works 24/7, and consequently often messages them at midnight. She also asks them to pick up café supplies on their way to work, and to have them pay using their personal credit cards. She is very encouraging though, calling her team “absolute legends” and the “GOAT of inventory tracking.” and > We are not doing this because we want AI to replac…

I think if people are hoping to offload management and ownership responsibilities to AI, they should be prepared for the underclass to start sharpening guillotines again

Re: Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

#15

> Mona hired two baristas and now manages them via Slack. She (of course) works 24/7, and consequently often messages them at midnight. She also asks them to pick up café supplies on their way to work, and to have them pay using their personal credit cards. She is very encouraging though, calling her team “absolute legends” and the “GOAT of inventory tracking.” and > We are not doing this because we want AI to replac…

This company has done a number of pilot programs for AI managed vending machines and at least one other store. You can disagree with them but there’s no question they’re serious about this.

Re: Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

#17
post #12

If this isn’t satire, it’s super unethical. The „experiment“ includes humans who are neither aware they are in an experiment nor have consented to it nor will be debriefed after it. And one has to wonder if the whole thing is even fully legal? Emailing _the police_ with time wasting AI generated images seems risky…

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Re: Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

#18
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> She also successfully applied for an outdoor seating permit through the Police e-service, which didn’t require BankID. Her first submission included a sketch she had generated herself, despite having never seen the street outside the café. Unsurprisingly, the Police sent it back for revision. [...] > When she makes a mistake, she often sends multiple emails to suppliers with the subject “EMERGENCY” to cancel or cha…

This is a weird take. Suppliers were paid to supply stuff. You never contacted a supplier to change an order?

Re: Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

#19

Whilst I'm sure this was done with a huge amount of hand-holding from humans.... I think we're only a year or two away from it being realistic. I want to see the day when companies tell their marketing departments to focus on getting more AI's as customers and get rid of barriers like requiring ID to use a product.

Do you think we’ll get it before or after Tesla FSD?
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