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PC Gamer
Rich Stanton

Google AI bot put in charge of Swedish coffee shop, proceeds to order 3,000 rubber gloves, 6,000 napkins, 4 first-aid kits, and constantly screws up the bread order

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The Associated Press has a new report on a cafe in Stockholm that's being used for an AI experiment, in which an AI bot using Google Gemini runs the show while all the actual, y'know, coffee-making is done by humans at its command.

The firm behind it, Andon Labs, was previously involved in an experiment where an AI ran a vending machine, and proceeded to start selling stuff at a loss, before inventing fake people and meetings, then collapsing into a bizarre identity crisis. So this should be good.

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