Ahhh, it's like the "AI run business" which has humans vetting everything it does. Because yeah, let me negotiate my salary with an LLM, please. The only thing holding me back is how much money I can get it to pay me before it turns into fraud.
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So they made $92 profit? Not bad.
^I'm kidding^
I started watching, expecting this to be cringy and super-annoying, but actually I find it a fascinating project and fun video.
Still only 6min+ in so far, but I especially like how the LLM's get roasted at times. Is this guy another Mark Rober-type?
I guess so. This is the first vid I've seen of this channel and it also seems to be promoting some kind of AI platform which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.
That being said the video is well made and entertaining. They don't make the obvious conclusion that the Ai really really isn't well suited to autonomously design and can't effectively run something as simple as a lemonade stand but the kids are cute.
They don’t make the obvious conclusion that the Ai really really isn’t well suited to autonomously design
Ah, that's disappointing. Claude in particular seemed to particularly bork things up at several points. I guess the one caveat is that the video itself and dude's running comments seem to suggest all by themselves, the obvious part.
Pretty sure the channel is owned and run by that AI platform, this is a cheap way of funding advertisement compared to the potential views
Actual maths, Google Ads blended average sits at 2.4 cents per view. That'd total 24.000$ for one million impressions. Which this movie got.
Then on top you can add the cost per click, which averages 3.8$ for technology products. Assuming one in a thousand would click the link, that represents a further cost of 3.800$
I'm pretty confident to claim this video to be the cheapest form of advertisement, especially because it's jolly making people associate the company with something positive rather than just another annoying ad popping up
I'm honestly astonished they managed to earn a single dollar.
They have the intelligence of a kid, or at least it feels like it in the video, they feel like kids, and that, is frightening.
Did it make 15107 dollars or 107 dollars?
We need to talk about the child situation.
Sounds similar to the Hog ran USA military. Limp dick empire... dusty old thing
Ok I'm anti AI as anyone but I feel like only measuring 1 day worth of sales is kinda dumb. Like if they did this for 6 months, with similar daily sales, they'll recoup their initial investment. The real question is how does the AI manage the day to day situation. What are their daily operating costs, are they at least able to exceed that?
The point of a lemonade stand is to setup a table, make lemonade, sell it and make profit by the end of the day and that's it.
Ok but this set up for the exercise seems inherently designed to set the AI up to fail(not that it wouldn't.) It seems the goal of the exercise is to figure out if AI is capable of making a successful business. Businesses don't expect to turn a profit on day 1. Usually they need at least a few months to a year. If you extrapolate the earnings out, the combined AI revenue would probably make their investment back in ~6 months. So the real question remains; is AI capable of making a successful lemonade stand? We still don't know.
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