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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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[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah, LLMs are useful tools, though not the silver bullet the hype proclaims them to be. The tech bros tightly controlling LLMs and chasing insane profits with their closed models, data centers, and subscriptions are the main problem. Open models like Qwen 3.6 27B that are approaching frontier capabilities while running on consumer hardware is really the only thing that gives me any hope for the future of LLMs.