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A couple of quotes from one of the employed baristas (translated from a Swedish local news article) [1]. "I'm worried every time there's a delivery, I never know what she's ordered." "I like it. At the interview, Mona didn't care that I have dialect or I don't have a doctorate. For her, the most important thing was that I was nice and could make coffee." If he has learned something from the experiment, it is that it…
Incredible amount of pearl clutching in this thread from people terrified that someone might receive a bad sidewalk seating diagram or an "EMERGENCY" order for paper cups
Interesting experiment but the article feels like it's deliberately withholding those kinds of details to hype the capabilities a little.
Interesting idea and there's clearly something real here, but I am extremely skeptical this played out like the article suggests. The authors are hand-waving some pretty complicated actions... Like how did Mona access supplier pages and place orders? How did she design custom merch? When she held a Google Meet with another agent, what even happened there, how did she connect to Google Meet... does she have the abilit…
You have browser extensions that allow AI to control it. There are apps that create a virtual microphone for text to speech. All pretty easy to get going if you allow an AI to control a computer.
Generating designs is also easy. Just use nano banana or something similar.
I'm more curious about the quality of the output. I've seen some ugly stuff. The article also includes one example (the outdoor seating design).
I'm also curious about the reaction of people to AI running the shop. Do some people decide not to deal with it? Do some people abuse it? In the article there seem to be only positive examples of human-AI interactions.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thankfully the EU is ahead of the game on this, and the AI Act mandates that any highly impactful decisions taken by AI/algorithms have to be explainable and audited (you need to be able to prove why the computer made that decision). Penalties are 5% of global turnover, so a decent incentive to have some guardrails and avoid companies hiding behind "computer says no".
AI will just generate an explanation in 1000 pages. Or 10000. Generation is cheap anyway. You like reading generated stuff? Good luck with this imitation of regulation.