Sounds like a weird way to run the "LLM small business owner" running a shop environment. I mean maybe you'd want the bot to be able to call and talk to suppliers if you go all the way, but why wouldn't the bot be left isolated with a closed loop of interactions, vend this, order more when your done, change prices to meet demand... Instead they just let everyone mess with the CEO at will? What were they testing instead, working in an adversarial environment?

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hippo22 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Because it would be cool? Like what if a customer wants a drink it doesn't carry? It could order some if there's enough demand. Or if sales are slow, it could try switching up the inventory.

	▲	johnnyanmac 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		>what if a customer wants a drink it doesn't carry? I will be very polite here and assume there's genuine good faith with this idea. Undeservedly so. It should take a note of failed orders, aggregate statistics for what requests it received, and a human reviewer should use that to determine what inventory to shop for for next time. That would he valuable. Anyone who worked a day in customer service, or even IT, can tell you you need to sanitize your inputs. And LLMs are very bad at saying "this is a useless request " Learning a new popular drink is great. People wanting PS5's from a vending machine is a useless request.

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eugenekay 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> What were they testing instead, working in an adversarial environment?

Presumably, testing how many readers believe this contrived situation. It was never a real Engineering exercise.

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