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Anthropic, tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, sold at big loss while inventing people, meetings, and experiencing a bizarre identity crisis (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] pokexpert30@jlai.lu 9 points 21 hours ago

The actual article is hillarious. You can clearly read that this was an experiment. For the sake of it. Nobody is trying to argue that "AI vending machine is the future". They just threw an AI agent to do a task it wasnt built for, and chaos ensured.