Vending Machine
When Claude was put in charge of real-time inventory and price management along with customer service for a self-payment refrigerator, it experienced hallucinations leading to incorrect account guidance, selling below cost, excessive discounts during customer persuasion, and free offerings. However, there's potential for improvement through prompt engineering, tool integration, and enhanced long-term context management. As AI increasingly becomes an economic agent, preparation is needed for AI's potential roles as middle managers or autonomous resource acquisition.