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.
Andon Labs' bot is an "AI agent" called "Mona" but I am going to just call it the bot. The firm has self-effacingly called the new place Andon Café, and the idea is that the bot oversees all of the management-y side of the business: initially this was stuff like securing the proper permits and hiring staff, but the...
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