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		cacozen 37 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Twilio support replies with hallucinated ... The vending machine mention is about this paper from Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1 The gist is: Claude AI successfully ran a shop by itself! - Actually a vending machine - Actually a mini-fridge in our office - Actually it gave lots of discounts and free products on our slack - Actually it hallucinated a Venmo account and people sent payments to God-knows-who

sieep 37 days ago [–]

This is hilarious.

The gall these guys have to say things like '...not-too-distant future in which AI models are autonomously running things in the real economy.'

It's not even close to doing something a little girl at a lemonade stand could do, no?

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