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Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business (futurism.com)

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A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.

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[–] 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.

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