Dhaka, May 2 -- Imagine this. An artificial intelligence is given a budget of 100 thousand USD. It also gets a three-year lease for a real shop in San Francisco. Then, ask it to make money.

Sounds like science fiction, right? But this was a real experiment.

The AI's name is Luna. Andon Labs created it. Instead of using Luna like a chatbot that only answers questions, they treated it more like a digital manager.

Most of us know AI as something that writes essays, makes pictures, or answers homework questions. But Luna was asked to do something different. It had to make decisions in the real world.

That is much harder. Luna was given control over a small retail store called Andon Market in San Francisco. The goal was simple: run the sto...