{"id":35011,"date":"2025-07-07T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=35011"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:05:06","slug":"claudius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/claudius\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudius"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some of those failures were very weird indeed. At one point, Claude hallucinated that it was a real, physical person, and claimed that it was coming in to work in the shop. We\u2019re still not sure why this happened. pic.x.com\/jHqLSQMtX8<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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New Anthropic Research: Project Vend.<\/p>\n

We had Claude run a small shop in our office lunchroom. Here\u2019s how it went. pic.x.com\/y4oOBi6Qwl<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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We all know vending machines are automated, but what if we allowed an AI to run the entire business: setting prices, ordering inventory, responding to customer requests, and so on?<\/p>\n

In collaboration with \u2066\u202a@andonlabs\u202c\u2069<\/a>, we did just that.<\/p>\n

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    Anthropic \u2066\u202a@AnthropicAI\u202c\u2069 Some of those failures were very weird indeed. At one point, Claude hallucinated that it was a real, physical person, and claimed that it was coming in to work in the shop. We\u2019re still not sure why this happened. pic.x.com\/jHqLSQMtX8   6\/27\/25, 11:07\u202fAM         Anthropic \u2066\u202a@AnthropicAI\u202c\u2069 New Anthropic Research: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}