The Associated Press has a new report on a cafe in Stockholm that's being used for an AI experiment, in which an AI bot using Google Gemini runs the show while all the actual, y'know, coffee-making is done by humans at its command. The firm behind it, Andon Labs, was previously involved in an experiment where an AI ran a vending machine , and proceeded to start selling stuff at a loss, before inventing fake people and meetings, then collapsing into a bizarre identity crisis. So this should be good. Andon Labs' bot is an "AI agent" called "Mona" but I am going to just call it the bot. The firm has self-effacingly called the new place Andon Café, and the idea is that the bot oversees all of the management-y side of the business: initially this was stuff like securing the proper permits and hiring staff, but the day-to-day task is ordering appropriate inventory and managing those staff. Alright. There are obviously good reasons to be doing thi… you know what, I can't finish that sentence.…