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> McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs So that's a lie. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/McDonalds-acquires-Israeli
by aaron695 7y ago
> McDonald's is to replace human servers with voice gen in its US drive-throughs
So that's a lie.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/McDonalds-acquires-Israeli-founded-Apprente-to-accelerate-drive-thrus-601292 https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/McDonalds-acquires-Israeli...
Remember in 2006 how they outsourced the drive in windows to a call centre in Hawaii, how did that turn out?
Did it immediately sack everyone one or did it not work out?
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/the-longdistance-journey-of-a-fastfood-order.html https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/the-longdistan...
Yes, yes AI will kill jobs, what we don't know is when.
This article contributes nothing.
All evidence is AI/voice gen is to immature yet, since nothing is actually implemented by McDonald's nothing contradicts this yet.
- Scoundreller 7y ago> "Their job is to be fast on the mouse -- that's their job," Ugh. No wonder why the project failed. It treated people as tools instead of people. There should be a custom board of keys. The more common the order item, the bigger the button to press.