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That basically means nothing. The article is very light on details.

Go into Claude right now. What does it have? Internet access after you prompt it.

Ok now pull out your phone, a credit card, a security camera. You can say "Claude these are yours, run a business", but nothing's going to happen until you build an actual harness.

Like the idea presented by the article is interesting, but it's basically just a fluff piece. The actual interesting article would have way more detail.

You’re not wrong, but the commenter I responded to clearly hadn’t bothered to read it at all since they were asking questions that are answered in the piece. And when that’s the case it’s hard to believe they would actually be interested in details even if they were available.

Did you read my question though? I read the full article. Please tell me where my question(s) are answered, and I will apologize on this forum.

From the article...

She has a corporate card, a phone number, email, internet access and eyes through security cameras

But that means nothing: my local LLM has access to the microphone, network and camera too. The key is the harness!

Yeah there's a lot of details which I'm guessing are actually being handled by humans either for legal reasons or practical ones.

Like OK, it's hiring people to run the place, but how are they getting the keys to the store? Someone needs to physically let them in.

What if the police get called because of shoplifting or if someone gets hurt in the store or something?

Who is filing the taxes for the business? They're probably not letting the AI handle that one. Move fast and break things is not a good idea when dealing with the IRS

A lot of this seems to depend on hiring good employees who can basically run the business themselves. Kind of like when a human owns a store I guess.