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Posted by lukaspetersson 14 hours ago

We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit(andonlabs.com)
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dbmikus 13 hours ago|
Curious if Andon has gone one level higher and has the AI decide what next real-world experiment it should do.
mring33621 8 hours ago||
I'd rather work for an AI than some of the managers I've had in the past.
dekoidal 8 hours ago||
So are we still going to be free to be creative while AI does the menial jobs?
vld_chk 10 hours ago||
This experiment would be really cool, if they would keep location and specifics of the shop low. IIRC when AI mania started, some group of people tried to run AI-managed t-shirt merch shop, but at least they explicitly did not disclose the brand and website to not inflate sales and keep it pure. Here I expect quite a few visitors and sales just from all the hype and interest around the project.

Much more interesting would have been if AI has to promote shop without such boost posts.

codeugo 9 hours ago||
Does the AI also watch my shift through the camera and provide feedback everyday like a real manager?
taco_emoji 11 hours ago||
i gave a keyboard to a toddler and asked it to make a profit
Reubend 5 days ago||
Cool experiment! But the "CEO" agent picked the most boring possible items to sell: t-shirts and some bland art prints designed by AI. I would have loved to see more creativity given that they could have picked anything.
VladVladikoff 12 hours ago||
Not surprised actually. TBH this is the biggest gap in the “AI is can make you a website”, the aesthetics are always so boring and bland, or often just fugly (bad colour matching, inappropriate paddings and margins, etc). And the logos it generates are similarly boring. As can be seen from the smiley face logo here. What does this store sell? A sparse layout as designed in a high rent location typically sells very expensive, very niche products that you can’t get anywhere else. This seems to me like it has already failed.
fl4ppyb3ngt 12 hours ago||
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maerF0x0 12 hours ago|||
It looks like every "lifestyle" company / brand I've been seeing come out of Millenials/Genz . Next up it will offer "coaching" on IG or some similar play where it promises to fix your life without having fixed its own.
techterrier 13 hours ago||
I expect earlier iterations successfully circumvented local regulations and created high street bookies
josefritzishere 13 hours ago||
This is not impossible but the detail level here is somewhere between vague and secretive. It reads like a marketing peice intended to sell more AI.
ToucanLoucan 13 hours ago|
In a most "damning with faint praise" way, all AI pieces read like marketing pieces to sell AI.

It writes code okay, scaling up to pretty well depending on the model. It's writing is boring but serviceable for corporate communicative content you don't care about. It's images are ugly. It's music is repetitive and dull.

I think the biggest problem with LLMs is that they were perfected and are shockingly good at writing code. And based on that, AI engineers, who find writing code to be hard/rewarding, have decided it can do anything. And it's proving more and more that it cannot.

Unfortunately the Business Class has decided it does everything fine enough as to not cause riots, so we're all getting it shoved into our shit anyway.

josefritzishere 12 hours ago||
I'm waiting for an LLM to start an MLM.
cvander 9 hours ago||
Thanks for building in public Lukas.
0gs 10 hours ago|
"Again, we are not doing this because we have good ideas for products. If we had good ideas for products, we would make an AI do those instead. As long as we don't have to think about our 'customers' (lol) as 'people' we're happy"
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