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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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[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I think thats completly false. Llm and be held accountable like a manager can.

The real danger imo is that hiring entry level needs to be deliberate. We MUST train the next generation and provide oppurtunity.

We will hire then, they will use AI, and it will bite them in the ass. This is a good thing though becauae we learn by getting burned.

Im ignoring the data center issue, which is really a "we wanna make money from subscriptions" scam. But open source models running on local hardware will sort that out over time.