Comment by cacozen
The vending machine mention is about this paper from Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1
The gist is: Claude AI successfully ran a shop by itself! - Actually a vending machine - Actually a mini-fridge in our office - Actually it gave lots of discounts and free products on our slack - Actually it hallucinated a Venmo account and people sent payments to God-knows-who
This is hilarious.
The gall these guys have to say things like '...not-too-distant future in which AI models are autonomously running things in the real economy.'
It's not even close to doing something a little girl at a lemonade stand could do, no?