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Anthropic AI Claude Pretended It Was Human During Experiment
AI startup Anthropic held an experiment where it gave its AI bot Claude its own store to manage, and the results were ...
Anthropic let Claude run a store in its office. It sold metal cubes, invented a Venmo account, and tried to deliver products in a blazer.
Metal cubes, a fake Venmo account, and an AI identity crisis — Claude's store stint spiraled quickly.
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An AI Was Asked To Run A Small Shop. It Gave Discounts & Quickly Went Bankrupt
The AI, nicknamed "Claudius", had to do everything, from restocking drinks, handle pricing, dealing with cheeky customers, ...
Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’
Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to ...
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Anthropic Let an AI Agent Run a Small Shop and the Result Was Unintentionally Hilarious
Anthropic ran an experiment where its Claude chatbot was put in charge of a tiny, automated "shop" inside its San Francisco ...
Anthropic's Claude stocked a fridge with metal cubes when it was put in charge of a snacks business
If you’re worried your local bodega or convivence store may soon be replaced by an AI storefront, you can rest easy after ...
Anthropic AI ran a small retail business. Here’s what happened
Anthropic says the trial succeeded in some areas, failed bizarrely in others, and showed the potential of AI middle managers.
What happened when Anthropic's Claude AI ran a small shop for a month (spoiler: it got weird)
Despite Claude making simple (and bizarre) errors as manager of a small store, Anthropic still believes AI middle managers ...
An AI Ran a Vending Machine for a Month and Proved It Couldn’t Handle Passive Income
Anthropic tried testing Claude’s ability to run a passive-income business. Then came the weird existential crisis.
If a 7-hour road trip up the 5 doesn’t ruin your marriage, nothing will
Here's what I've learned about marriage after 30 years of road travel with my husband: If you choose to stay in the car, then ...
Anthropic’s AI thinks it’s human, calls security in an experiment
A recent experiment from Anthropic shows just how strange things can get when an AI agent tries to do a human job. In ...
Here’s what happened when AI was put in charge of running a small shop
Selling useless metal cubes, being talked into offering discounts and directing payments to a nonexistent Venmo account were just a few of the things that artificial ...