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My local ice cream shop has never invested anything in AI. Do you think they'll come out of this ahead?
by eru 7mo ago
My local ice cream shop has never invested anything in AI. Do you think they'll come out of this ahead?
- debo_ 7mo agoIce cream tends not to sell well in winter.
- dwattttt 7mo agoI've seen the "success" a non-software company has been having, trying to integrate AI into their processes. A hypothetical competitor who chose not to do so would absolutely be coming out ahead right now. I can't say whether this trend would continue, but the answer to your question today is "yes".
- SoftTalker 7mo agoMy local ice cream shop doesn't even have a computer in the building. Well, unless you count the credit card terminal.
- Brian_K_White 7mo ago[flagged]
- tdeck 7mo agoRemember the Long Island Ice Tea Company that renamed to Long Blockchain Company? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp
- airstrike 7mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
- solid_fuel 7mo agoGenuinely curious, what could an LLM even do for an ice cream shop? Checkout already takes less time than scooping a cone, and it's even quicker with cash. Maybe it could surveil the customers and employees? But I think that will lose you more customers than it gains. Generally I would expect the ROI to be negative, like we've seen with most corporate AI projects, so yeah any ice cream shop that didn't invest in "AI" is going to come out ahead of one that poured money into the pit.
- eru 7mo agoThere's more to AI than LLMs.