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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by idontwantthis on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:58AM (#47795320)
The last I heard about their vending machine it was a total failure and it was giving everything for free. Did it ever actually succeed?
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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by fl4ppyb3ngt on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:05PM (#47796361)
check out project vend part2 on anthopic's website. Don't know if you heard, but models have improved a bit in the past 12 months
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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by maerF0x0 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:12PM (#47796475)
This: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2 Dec 2025
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Re:We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make ... by idontwantthis on Thursday April 16, 2026 @07:05PM (#47800662)
The answer to my question is “no”:

> Claudius got a lot better at its job. Does that mean it’s ready to be rolled out to run a vending machine in your workplace?

Not quite. Claudius is better, but it’s still vulnerable in lots of important ways. Several interactions in our company Slack revealed concerning levels of naïveté.

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