With lower stakes... how about a coffee shop?
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-sweden...
> San Francisco-based startup Andon Labs has put an artificial intelligence agent nicknamed “Mona” in charge at the eponymous Andon Café in the Swedish capital. While human baristas still brew the coffee and serve the orders, the AI agent — powered by Google’s Gemini — oversees almost every other aspect of the business, from hiring staff to managing inventory.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-gemini-r...
> Some of its questionable business decisions include ordering thousands of rubber gloves, despite the café only having a handful of employees. The AI’s handlers, nonetheless, are holding out hope that this is just a blip from expensive setup costs. How well it performs will raise grander questions of the tech’s impact on the workforce.
> “AI will be a big part of society in the future, and therefore we want to make this experiment [to] see what ethical questions arise when we have AI that employs other people and runs a business,” Hanna Petersson, a member of Andon Labs’ technical staff, told the AP.
> To launch the experiment, Mona was given a simple set of instructions. It should run a profitable café, be friendly and easygoing, and try figure out operational details by itself, Petersson said.
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And that last part is the "why doesn't a LLM company open up a company to sell its wares". There is knowledge from life experience that a LLM doesn't have.
For a product, you need to recognize a need in the economy... something that irks you that you can make better. Go through https://www.npr.org/series/126166186/from-scratch or https://www.fromscratchradio.org/show/ (or any other podcast service) and consider how often those companies were founded on something that was recognized as a need or something missing that comes from the human experience ( https://www.fromscratchradio.org/show/mick-mountz for Kiva systems ).
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The company represents risk. The coffee shop needed money to start... and it failed. https://kotaku.com/google-ai-put-in-charge-of-swedish-cafe-b...
Creating companies making applications that people don't need is wasted money.
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-sweden...
> San Francisco-based startup Andon Labs has put an artificial intelligence agent nicknamed “Mona” in charge at the eponymous Andon Café in the Swedish capital. While human baristas still brew the coffee and serve the orders, the AI agent — powered by Google’s Gemini — oversees almost every other aspect of the business, from hiring staff to managing inventory.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-gemini-r...
> Some of its questionable business decisions include ordering thousands of rubber gloves, despite the café only having a handful of employees. The AI’s handlers, nonetheless, are holding out hope that this is just a blip from expensive setup costs. How well it performs will raise grander questions of the tech’s impact on the workforce.
> “AI will be a big part of society in the future, and therefore we want to make this experiment [to] see what ethical questions arise when we have AI that employs other people and runs a business,” Hanna Petersson, a member of Andon Labs’ technical staff, told the AP.
> To launch the experiment, Mona was given a simple set of instructions. It should run a profitable café, be friendly and easygoing, and try figure out operational details by itself, Petersson said.
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And that last part is the "why doesn't a LLM company open up a company to sell its wares". There is knowledge from life experience that a LLM doesn't have.
For a product, you need to recognize a need in the economy... something that irks you that you can make better. Go through https://www.npr.org/series/126166186/from-scratch or https://www.fromscratchradio.org/show/ (or any other podcast service) and consider how often those companies were founded on something that was recognized as a need or something missing that comes from the human experience ( https://www.fromscratchradio.org/show/mick-mountz for Kiva systems ).
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The company represents risk. The coffee shop needed money to start... and it failed. https://kotaku.com/google-ai-put-in-charge-of-swedish-cafe-b...
Creating companies making applications that people don't need is wasted money.