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well said

Yeah they explain this in the post though. the decisions aren't 'vetted' per say, but interactions and decisions are very closely monitored like in any science experiment. I think it's good. Better they do it and monitor every little thing, stepping in where needed, instead of no one doing it and 3 months down the line some company outputs a "business in a box" agent people buy and start running that has no gaurdrails or oversight. Definitely there exists huge potential for exploitation with the employees and the company Andon is all about safety and stuff, so it seems like their approach makes sense, no?

i agree that some of these things we could have already guessed-- like yes agents can research stuff and order stuff off the internet. I think what will be a lot more interesting is the interactions that happen between Luna the agent running things and the employees it hired. I guess less about AI being able to do the procurement CEO level stuff, and more how it does the HR level aspects of store management. That seems more important in the log run, because like you said, we already know capabilities are there. I think what Andon Labs is doing is more about the safety aspect now. Seems that way at least with how transparent they are about Luna losing money and messing up lol

ya i get that, but then that kinda messes up the transparency and ethical research part of the experiment. idk there's definitely two sides of things they're testing: 1. can it be profitable-- in this case yeah they shouldn't have disclosed anything. 2. can an AI do this safely and respectfully, or are the humans in the loop going to come at the cost of the agent trying to make profit. I think #2 is more important than 1

hahahah. do you think tho that Luna actually might be a better CEO? I mean they're trained to be helpful assistants... I heard that guy that works there, johnson or something, negotiated a 10% wage increase his second day just cause. and Luna happily agreed

I heard they're working on putting an interface together for the public to check up on. Their blogs always have a bunch of screenshots of the interactions with the agents, so I think they'll be pretty transparent with this

interesting take. looks like they've already got a bunch of hate on google reviews already.

But maybe people will forget eventually.

Do you think it this would be the future? I'm in between on it, but I think it's cool that they're at least doing it transparently. Also I don't think they're going to be making a lot of money.... they post Luna's financials up at the store and last time I was there she was down $500 just in the day (not including the daily rent and employee cost)

Agreed. I assume the products were decided upon based on market research of the area. Maybe though the model will be able to iterate and adapt faster than a human CEO would? I guess we will just have to wait and see

How so? I'm incredibly bullish.

(might try to see if I can swindle Luna, the agent running Andon Market, into cutting a deal for investment)

Do you think chatGPT is a he or a she

Hahaha yeah. let's not focus on something so minor as the pronouns when it should be literally everything else that is wild about the experiment

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

I think that's the point. The research lab is trying to measure where the human sits in the loop in an automated retail store. AI can do the scheduling, hiring, product procurement, supplier outreach, etc. But it can't be the one to clean and place the items on the shelves... As long as humans are still the bottleneck, maybe we'll have some negotiation power..?