I'd be more interested in the details: what are the inputs given to the model? Does it get a live video feed? Does it know if/when employees show up and open the store? Does it get sales figures? Info on the individuals who bought things?

Storekeeping is more than just ordering merch and putting it up on hangars.

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mcmcmc 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have you considered reading TFA? Literally the second paragraph:

> She has a corporate card, a phone number, email, internet access and eyes through security cameras.

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pythonaut_16 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That basically means nothing. The article is very light on details.

Go into Claude right now. What does it have? Internet access after you prompt it.

Ok now pull out your phone, a credit card, a security camera. You can say "Claude these are yours, run a business", but nothing's going to happen until you build an actual harness.

Like the idea presented by the article is interesting, but it's basically just a fluff piece. The actual interesting article would have way more detail.

	▲	mcmcmc 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You’re not wrong, but the commenter I responded to clearly hadn’t bothered to read it at all since they were asking questions that are answered in the piece. And when that’s the case it’s hard to believe they would actually be interested in details even if they were available.

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why_at 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah there's a lot of details which I'm guessing are actually being handled by humans either for legal reasons or practical ones.

Like OK, it's hiring people to run the place, but how are they getting the keys to the store? Someone needs to physically let them in.

What if the police get called because of shoplifting or if someone gets hurt in the store or something?

Who is filing the taxes for the business? They're probably not letting the AI handle that one. Move fast and break things is not a good idea when dealing with the IRS

A lot of this seems to depend on hiring good employees who can basically run the business themselves. Kind of like when a human owns a store I guess.

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jskrn 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

From the article...

She has a corporate card, a phone number, email, internet access and eyes through security cameras