▲ 524 ▼ Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business (futurism.com) submitted 4 months ago by other_cat@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 113 comments fedilink hide all child comments A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.
[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children) Do you have any examples? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago Google search up until about 5 years ago. Then they enshittified in favor of AI summaries that regularly get shit wrong permalink fedilink source parent [–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago In scientific queries. LMs return an answer from the largest data but if a system or model was recently proven wrong, they still return the wrong answer. If you make very specific queries about DNA or protein sequence, they usually generate fabrications that are completely wrong. They tend to return answers trained on the Internet, an uncurated pile of dogshit when it comes to science. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago Google search up until about 5 years ago. Then they enshittified in favor of AI summaries that regularly get shit wrong permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago In scientific queries. LMs return an answer from the largest data but if a system or model was recently proven wrong, they still return the wrong answer. If you make very specific queries about DNA or protein sequence, they usually generate fabrications that are completely wrong. They tend to return answers trained on the Internet, an uncurated pile of dogshit when it comes to science. permalink fedilink source parent