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A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time::Presto Automations recently admitted that most of the orders taken by its AI drive-thru chatbot are actually assisted by off-site human workers.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (22 children)

The McDonalds here had an AI prompt for like a week. I don't care because all I need to do is say the number for my mobile order and it was faster. But everyone over 30 would be screaming and yelling shit about "who are you", "what's happening", "am I supposed to talk now?". I still get stuck behind old people that struggle with actual humans at the drive thru.

General technological competence is so far behind what can be offered to consumers. People are the bottle neck, look at bear proof trash can designs. And I don't think it's getting better like it was. With the internet now packaged into 2 click apps, the majority of kids are just doing that instead of getting into FOSS and Linux like the majority of the early 2000s internet users.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (5 children)

If it doesn't meet the user's needs or expectations, then the system is wrong, not the user.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You’re not wrong, but damn I sure would love the user to be less of an idiot. My job would be so much easier

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

There's a fine line between your job being easier and your job being redundant, though

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