How an agentic AI bot managed an office vending machine

[harborsparrow]

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthrop...4?st=5XwN7g&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Is this the same?
https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

Here is a non gated version of the WSJ story
https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-ai-vending-machine

Still think AI is ready to revolutionize the economy? A new experiment might change your mind.

In a bold test of Anthropic’s latest version of its AI Claude, The Wall Street Journal gave the large language model (LLM) a shot at running an office vending machine. The result was an unmitigated — if unintentionally comical — disaster, forcing the team in charge to pull the plug after three weeks.

 

[harborsparrow]

Yes, looks like the same case.

 

[jedishrfu]

Wow, lets give an AI some money and see where it goes off the rails. Then have another put a stop to it. Its definitely a bold experiment though. I wonder who got the game machine.

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It reminds me of the Stanford Prison Experiment which had to be shutdown six days in, before someone suffered significant psychological damage from guard emotional abuse.