These articles don't mean anything unless we get info about what steps humans needed to perform.

If the steps to hire an applicant are:

A human asks AI to write a job posting.

Human posts output.

Human gathers candidates.

Human asks AI "which of these 40 applicants should we hire".

Then an AI isn't managing the cafe at all. I am super dubious that they created some huge LLM orchestration context management monstrosity, gave it access to their bank account and then told it to go.

Yes, but then the catchy title wouldn't make much sense, would it? So let's remove all the things you said here and were are left with: "AI started a business all by itself, and is running it." Then:

> We are not doing this because we want AI to replace every café owner in Stockholm. Rather, we are doing this because we want to publicly show the current capabilities of AI.

We are not trying to take your jobs, we just want to show you that we can.

> Human asks AI "which of these 40 applicants should we hire".

This step would also be illegal in Sweden, so it's quite probable they told applicants ahead of time this would be some AI research project. Or they're about to be quite a few hundred thousand krona lighter once the employment lawyers catch wind of this.

They claim that’s exactly what they created. They could be lying, but I don’t think there’s anything they could post on their website to prove the contrary.