I Gave Claude $1,000 to Start a Business (No Humans Needed?)

What I learned in this video: no free drinks at Anthropic HQ.

So how did it do registering with the state? Paying it's taxes? Getting a warranty on the equipment? Hiring someone to fix then stock the equipment? How did it pay for its own servers and cost of AI to do this? How did it negotiate with the management of the office/building to allow for its machine to be in the location? How did it get a merchant account with credit card processing services and the terminal and the contract you need to sign with them? Did it sign a contract with the location, and is there a profit share or just a flat fee? How did it confirm that the inventory it received was what it ordered? When encountering real fraud, how did it call the bank to speak to them? You know, all the crap a real business has to do, that actually stops someone from doing it? Answering emails, and screwing around with prices is the easy and fun part. Yes, get off my lawn.

People love to cite these research papers as evidence that AI is a terrible gimmick, but miss the bigger picture in how failure is a mode of learning and improvement. I think you hit the nail on the head when you said to keep in mind they will be fixing these things in the near future, and I agree. The research is critical to do that.

You know what is hilarious. Wes you describing the long context task problem with these LLM’s made me instantly think about one of my favorite movies. Memento! The main character was trying to solve a crime that happened to him but he had retrograde amnesia (no new permanent memories) so he relied on clues tattooed on his body about the crime and killer. Great movie and super apt comparison. Great content as always!!!

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I didn’t think I needed to interact with a neurotic vending machine, until now. New bucket list item added. 😂😂😂

Calling the Feds for percieved defrauding? Good lord id hate to imagine what itll do for theft

"rely on keeping notes" part reminded me of the movie memento.

Self-improving will be the key for long term adaptability, reliability and so on

Stoked you fixed the audio.