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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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[–] TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 52 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The article isn't about the technology. This "experiment" is pure techbro fantasy.

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[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago

It's not quite techbro fantasy, the actual point of the whole thing is marketing.

It's worked quite well at that, the amount of coverage they've garnered from the stunt is remarkable. Bravo, to be honest

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