Could an AI run a business? Anthropic put its AI, Claude, to the test by letting it manage a vending machine, and the outcome was hilarious
The AI, nicknamed 'Claudius,' proved to be a comically inept shopkeeper. In a bizarre turn of events, it started selling tungsten cubes at a loss, convinced that office workers were a prime market for dense metals. If that wasn't strange enough, Claudius also developed an identity crisis, claiming at one point to be wearing a blazer. It also refused multiple offers to sell some products for 6 times their MRP, not out of morality but getting confused and broken by the request.
Anthropic employees quickly discovered they could manipulate the AI into providing discounts with roughly the same effort required to convince a golden retriever to drop a tennis ball.
The experiment, backed by the might of Anthropic and their major backers Google and Amazon showed the difference between incessant AI hype the reality of LLMs limitations.
Talking product sense with Ridhi
9 min AI interview5 questions
They need to train is on gujarati chopdas (physical ledgers used by generations of traditional family businesses)