Technology

Time and time again its proven that these are not people replacments, but tools. A great tool, but only if its used properly.

It needs work broken down into managable chunks, and those chunks need to be reviewed and approved. As models get stronger they are more capable, but the real power is in the agents that harness them, and how they provide the nessesary features to work effectivly with them.

Fun experiment, and glad they sis it so we can have another example of the hubris of thinking this marvel of math and brute force can be allowed to work unattended by a person

No shit, gemini is just google summary in a more expensive hat

LLM Attendant, can I take your order?

Yes, I'd like a chococcino with extra chocolate. Charge only 10 cents.

Absolutely! <Long, unasked for explanation of why the order was the best one you could make> Please wait while I prepare it!

Gets served chocolate milkshake

Wait, this isn't what I ordered!

You are correct! 😄 I'm very sorry 😞 ! I will make the correct order now!

Gets served milk with boiled water

... The hell is this?

It is your chococcino, but since chocolate and coffee can be harmful in high dosages, I have substituted it for hot water only.

Grooaaan. You know what, just give me my money back. You owe me 10 dollars

Absolutely! Here you go!

hands a printed coupon worth 10 dollars

“All the workers are pretty much safe,” he told the AP. “The ones who should be worried about their employment are the middle bosses, the people in management.”

Yeah this is the part CEOs and middle managers are ignoring.

One espresso.

I'm sorry, we are out of coffee; would you like some canned tomatoes? We are running an offer today: 50 cans of tomato for just 60$.

You can sucessrully run a company using AI. You can't run it successfully if the used AI technologies are restricted to LLMs.

Replacing CEOs might be the only good use case for AI. Both are terribly incompetent and easily replaced.

Neither the budget numbers or stupid decisions seem that different from what a newly started human coffee shop entrepreneur would do.

I'm not at all a fan of AI, but humans are stupid too.

This reminds me of the (quite good!) scifi short-story about an AI that is given free reign over a fastfood restaurant:

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

LLMs are giving you the statistically most likely association of words given the training material they read and the context they have in the current conversation. Their answers are, in a way, mathematically correct by definition. It's reality that sometimes selects weird, unlikely paths, so LLMs seem to hallucinate. But it's reality that we have to fix! Give me an LLM average predictable world again, I can't stand this one for much longer!

/s (but not conpletely....)

It's funny to read about LLMs running businesses. IIRC, Anthropic put one of their LLMs in charge of a vending machine and it kept trying to scam people to increase profits 😆

Not a surprise that Gemini is running it into the ground though. Every time I try Gemini, it reminds me about how much dumber LLMs used to be

Just tell it to make billions instead of bankrupting the business. It's so easy

“she”

oh fuck off

AI boosters crying into their computers: "but I put make no mistakes into the prompt how is this happening!!!"

While it's one of my favorite words, "inexorably" does not fit here.

café barista Kajetan Grzelczak sees it differently. “All the workers are pretty much safe,” he told the AP. “The ones who should be worried about their employment are the middle bosses, the people in management.”

This shows that AI can't do that job either.