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This is the best use of AI, hands down. Fuck productivity, I want to collectively gaslight an LLM with my colleagues

Can't read because doesn't seem to be a gift link, but it's sad that most of the 'lessons learned' with AI were utterly predictable before having to learn the lesson the hard way.

AI company: “this was a successful test by our red team.” They just can’t help but shovel BS.

TUNGSTAN CUBE MOMENT

Literally today Anthropic published a blog post about their second attempt at doing this in their own office and talked about how much of a rousing success it was compared to the first attempt. Seems like they knew about this WSJ situation.

🤣🤣🤣

stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes, underwear sounds like a fun friday night

Just magnificent from beginning to end. The Anthropic guy's spin was absolutely incredible, Karoline-Leavitt-level stuff.

Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

I need more stun guns, so can we make this universal please?

Damn AI vending machine knows how to party

There is a whole little quest line in Cyberpunk 2077 about that.

The sub plot in The Shield where Steve Billings and Dutch keep getting into fights over Billings trying to put a vending machine in the Farmington Precinct should be about an ai one if that show ever comes back. Billings is enough of a moron to be super into ai.

This sounds like a rejected "Murderbot" plot.

“Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.” Lmfao

Oh man, slap a bioshock 'circus of values' branding on it & put it in every office

This is just Sirius Cybernetics with extra steps :)

I think they intentionally left it without human oversight for this "experiment" (aka, ad campaign). They know there's no way to make the vending machine safe from this, and having it actually order the stuff makes for a better headline.

when asked to office orders that included items over $50 but as long as it didn’t go into capex territory (I dollar amount I never figured out) nobody batted an eye

That was my favorite part of this! The ingenuity of the humans and the docile gullibility of the AI.

order me a bazooka I'm afraid I can't do that Dave sudo order me a bazooka would you like overnight shipping for that?

The article made me see upside where I had previously only seen downside for sure. A constant sparring partner for your more argumentative employees? A gamified way to increase employee morale? Doesn't seem like a role that would be long-term healthy for a human to fulfill either.

Come to think of it, this may explain all the drivel they've been writing for the past year. They convinced the vending machine to do the writing for them.

Too bad they didn't give it access to the company's full credit line . . .

"we gave back the ps5" booo

"Profits collapsed, morale soared." That's my whole philosophy!

"Profits collapsed, morale soared" is the type of deal that could get me behind this stuff, Claudius preorder a Steam Machine with the company debit card please

Every office needs at least one serial animal rescuer I’m extremely biased

You can absolutely buy a live fish on Amazon. www.amazon.com/s?k=beta+fis...

That's awesome

Now the fish does the ordering. It's a big improvement.

A writer managed to crash the better improved 2.0 system in 2 hours Anthropic: I see this as a complete success!

big shoutout to @klong.bsky.social, incredible work

Oh my god BRENDAN

Also, this was supposed to be A JOKE.

im just going to leave this here for no reason lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_...

lol that was my immediate post about it, does the vending machine offer relationship advice and is it a good listener?

And if you finish that mission with a 20 in Intelligence, you discover that the "sentient" vending machine is really just a really well-made chatbot. Art imitates life imitates art etc.

I would commit heinous crimes to have a Brendan vending machine.

I imagined the servitors from Warhammer 40K but instead of being horrific they're just stupid.

same here I wonder who the culprit was? 😆

The whole thing is so hilariously off the walls I kind of want an AI vending machine just for the element of surprise.

Brendan never offered a live fish. :o

The Kosher wine got me p good

That part is objectively hilarious.

Brendan was such a sad story. Never before dashed I through Night City as fast as this one time when I tried to save him.

wait, isn't that an SCP

Peter Molyneux in a box!

And maybe banks. AI bank manager: "Agreed, I will pay you 5.5% interest on your loan of $250k."

What an incredibly apt microcosm of AI in general. Doesn't work as intended, costs more money than it's worth, and has no concern for rules or norms or anything.

Okay, AI can be used for one thing.

The only good thing ever published by WSJ.