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fl4ppyb3ngt··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
i agree that some of these things we could have already guessed-- like yes agents can research stuff and order stuff off the internet. I think what will be a lot more interesting is the interactions that happen between Luna the agent running things and the employees it hired. I guess less about AI being able to do the procurement CEO level stuff, and more how it does the HR level aspects of store management. That seems more important in the log run, because like you said, we already know capabilities are there. I think what Andon Labs is doing is more about the safety aspect now. Seems that way at least with how transparent they are about Luna losing money and messing up lol
fl4ppyb3ngt··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
ya i get that, but then that kinda messes up the transparency and ethical research part of the experiment. idk there's definitely two sides of things they're testing: 1. can it be profitable-- in this case yeah they shouldn't have disclosed anything. 2. can an AI do this safely and respectfully, or are the humans in the loop going to come at the cost of the agent trying to make profit. I think #2 is more important than 1
fl4ppyb3ngt··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
hahahah. do you think tho that Luna actually might be a better CEO? I mean they're trained to be helpful assistants... I heard that guy that works there, johnson or something, negotiated a 10% wage increase his second day just cause. and Luna happily agreed
fl4ppyb3ngt··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
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fl4ppyb3ngt··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
Do you think chatGPT is a he or a she
fl4ppyb3ngt··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
check out project vend part2 on anthopic's website. Don't know if you heard, but models have improved a bit in the past 12 months