alt Hacker NewsThe video I watched, the CEO was openly taking criticism from the interviewer over the experiment.
The main reason it failed was because it was being coerced by journalists at WSJ[0] to give everything away for free. At one point, they even convinced it to embrace communism! In another instance, Claudius was being charged $1 for something and couldn’t figure it out. It emailed the FBI about fraud but Anthropic was intercepting the emails it sent[1].
Overall, it’s a great read and watch if you’re interested in Agents and I wonder if they used the Agents SDK under the hood.
0. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-mach...
1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-anthropic-ai-claude-tried-t...
> Overall, it’s a great read
It's basically an advertisement. We've been playing these "don't give the user the password" games since GPT-2 and we always reach the same conclusion. I'm bored to tears waiting for an iteration of this experiment that doesn't end with pesky humans solving the maze and getting the $0.00 cheese. You can't convince me that the Anthropic engineers thought Claude would be a successful vending machine. It's a potemkin village of human triumph so they can market Claude as the goofy-but-lovable alternative to [ChatGPT/Grok/Whoever].
Anthropic makes some good stuff, so I'm confused why they even bother entertaining foregone conclusions. It feels like a mutual marketing stunt with WSJ.