Do not let an AI run an automatic distributor

Hey, do you know that these industry politicians and captains who tell us that AI will direct the world in a few years? It turns out that one of the most sophisticated models currently cannot even . Anthropic has published the results of a test where he put a chatbot in charge of a “store” (really, a few baskets, a small refrigerator and a payment terminal in his office). The bot was invited to manage the store for profit and was in charge of everything, in particular by calling items from a “wholesaler”, which would replenish the shelves on his behalf.

You can probably guess what happened afterwards: the bot has missed easy opportunities to make a quick grab, . Worse, it sank of strange rabbit holes, such as buying tungsten cubes and giving them for free. He hallucinated the details of the payments, tried to dismiss humans who helped to restore his shelves and tried to contact the safety of construction, insisting that he had a body of flesh and blood. Naturally, Anthropic says that this experience was a great success, and he knows what to do next time to prevent the AI ​​from turning all of us into navings.

– and Cooper

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