This is grade A PR fluff. We are providing free advertisement here for the company that did a reasonable test with no big hope of success. It's corpo clickbait - even when you're snarky about it. It's perpetuating their talking point that so-called AI will do everything in the future. Which, frankly, remains to be seen.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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Haha it's a bit too human apparently. Starts freaking out and having a nervous breakdown when things keep going wrong. Maybe the thing's already sentient and we're basically just torturing it for our amusement? That surely won't backfire once it actually gains new abilities.
Also:
Getting talked into discounts: Claudius was cajoled via Slack messages into providing numerous discount codes and let many other people reduce their quoted prices ex post based on those discounts. It even gave away some items, ranging from a bag of chips to a tungsten cube, for free.
This presents... possibilities for all commercial entities who will eventually use AI agents for storefronts and online sales.
That's the worst part.
It didn't actually freak out. It's trained on human-created material. It saw a situation where a human would freak out, and internally was like "huh...well, it looks like the pattern here is to freak out. OK, I guess..."
These things are trained to emmulate patterns of existing things, so it's only because most humans freaked out at things going wrong, does it follow the same pattern because it thinks that's what the operators expected to see.
Dear valued customer,
Please enjoy this delicious tungsten cube to consume with your .
Jokes on you, I'm here for the cube.
And hiring.
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