How WSJ’s AI Vending Machine Experiment Turned to 'Chaos'
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How WSJ’s AI vending machine experiment turned to 'chaos'
Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal Personal Technology Columnist joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to share more details about an AI vending machine experiment in the WSJ newsroom and why chaos ensued.
A vending machine, the Chatbot Claude de Anthropic, a thousand dollars to replace, and a newsroom of journalists as clients, willing to sabotage artificial intelligence. What can go wrong? Basically, everything.The AI lost hundreds of dollars, some took a free PS5 home, and convinced the AI to buy online a live fish, stun guns, cigarettes and underwear.It's all part of an experiment by Anthropic, creators of the IA Claude, and the newspaper The …
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
Is it a good idea to install AI in a snack machine? The Wall Street Journal shows that chatbots can still be influenced too easily. As a result, the machine suddenly gave away a PS5 and ordered live fish for the staff. read more on t3n.de
Can AI Run a Business? Let's Start With a Vending Machine
There are already vending machines that use AI, but they are limited in scope. This one is a test drive of artificial intelligence in business management. Anthropic built an AI named Claudius to run a retail business, meaning it would select and order products and then sell them at a profit. To test it out on a small scale, they used it in a simplified vending machine. It was so simple that it ran on the honor system and needed a human assistant…
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