▲ 524 ▼ Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business (futurism.com) submitted 5 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.
[–] obinice@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children) Inexorably? ...Really? It can't be turned off? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] deeves@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago No, researchers are compensating for the expenses. Its okay if the business fails and they give up the lease. That's the experiment. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago I’m glad I’m not the only one. Maybe they couldn’t stop it from driving it out of business but I don’t see how that’s possible. Like you said just turn it off permalink fedilink source parent
[–] deeves@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago No, researchers are compensating for the expenses. Its okay if the business fails and they give up the lease. That's the experiment. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago I’m glad I’m not the only one. Maybe they couldn’t stop it from driving it out of business but I don’t see how that’s possible. Like you said just turn it off permalink fedilink source parent