[The WSJ] Let AI Run [Their] Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds Of Dollars.
Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents.
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https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34?gaa_at=eafs <-- shared media article
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https://youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ?si=aJQ2_BoxvLcNjOiz <-- shared video
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[When you get clever journalists to !$%^&*@ with AI… bravo! And this is a very simple situation, vending machines have been around since literally the Roman Empire
“You are using the wrong prompts” and LUDDITES! In the comments in 3… 2… 1…]
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