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Wendy’s Begins Replacing Workers with Artificial Intelligence – America’s Workforce is in Big Trouble
The DC Patriot ^ | May 15, 2023 | Brick Tamland

Posted on 05/16/2023 9:16:31 PM PDT by cba123

In a development straight out of a dystopian sci-fi thriller, fast food giant Wendy’s has embarked on a chilling experiment, replacing its drive-through order takers with an AI chatbot powered by Google software. This technological takeover aims to streamline the ordering process by training the AI to understand customer requests and decrease waiting times at the drive-throughs.

According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, Wendy’s is set to launch this eerie transformation in its home state of Ohio, starting with locations in Columbus. The company plans to implement the change in June, all in the name of shorter lines and faster service, as declared by Chief Executive Todd Penegor.

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KEYWORDS: 15dollarsanhour; ai; aitakeover; capitalism; google; goolag; minimumwage; news; skynet; ubi; wendys
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To: CodeJockey

Have a nice day.


101 posted on 05/17/2023 6:07:45 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Spktyr

“too stubborn or too stupid to use the app”

I refuse to use any app—they can steal information on you and sell it to the highest bidder.

My motto—take this app and shove it.


102 posted on 05/17/2023 6:12:47 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: NetAddicted

It will be a while before that takes place on a wide scale. The low level jobs will be gone first.


103 posted on 05/17/2023 6:22:12 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: bert
The logical result is UBI either way. That's why all of it is so desired.

The powers that be want all of us on welfare and tech is how to achieve UBI utopia. If all of the jobs have been eliminated, well, onto the welfare roles you go.

Besides, right now there is a mass amount of jobs that are available but people are refusing to fill them. There's help wanted signs everywhere. GenZ (not millennials) are setting records for their laziness and unwilling to work "this kind of job. That job is beneath me."

It's more fun to sit in the basement sponging off the parents, while being an "influencer" on YT or the 'Gram.

104 posted on 05/17/2023 6:27:57 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: Elsie

You missed my point

By eliminating one human job, the human is freed by the robot to do another job.

The net result is that more jobs and work gets accomplished

Now then, there is the Elon Musk/Tesla problem. Elon Musk in his current production method has eliminated 40 robots per car. That is either robot unemployment or robots freed for other work


105 posted on 05/17/2023 6:32:28 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: cba123

Learn to code!


106 posted on 05/17/2023 6:37:54 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Elsie

Indeed the June Cleaver extension will be popular.


107 posted on 05/17/2023 6:50:19 AM PDT by xp38
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To: cba123

Idiocracy





We Have Arrived.

108 posted on 05/17/2023 6:54:20 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Will the AI be able to replicate the garbled, unintelligible voices on the speakers?


109 posted on 05/17/2023 7:15:12 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Spktyr

“Automated trespass warnings will be given, the cops will automatically be called and what’s better is that the idiot won’t be able to scream about racism to get out of it. The automated system does not care what race you are.”

You’re making me laugh 🤣😂.
Charges of racism can ALWAYS be made, at any time, for any reason. AI calls the Popo on an unruly brother or sister who tussles with the Popo. Unruly brother or sister dies after said tussle then they was MURDERED by the SYSTEMIC RACISM in this country.


110 posted on 05/17/2023 7:17:17 AM PDT by oldvirginian (A friend helps you move furniture. A Real friend helps you move bodies. )
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To: Spktyr
Wendys also has an app to order through. They offer discounts for using it as well as reward points redeemable for free food. The AI order system at the board is only for people too old, too stubborn or too stupid to use the app.

I’m older’n dirt, but I prefer using the apps. Especially at Chic FilA.

111 posted on 05/17/2023 7:19:19 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: cba123
How do you like me now?



112 posted on 05/17/2023 7:22:20 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Elsie

I live in Northern Virginia..just about nobody I deal with on a daily basis speaks with a Southern accent.

Except VDOT employees, that is.


113 posted on 05/17/2023 7:27:39 AM PDT by brianl703
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To: cba123

Wendy

The Beach Boys

Wendy, Wendy, what went wrong
Oh so wrong?
We went together for so long

I never thought a guy could cry
‘Til you made it with ‘A-I’
Oh Wendy, Wendy left me alone
Hurts so bad


114 posted on 05/17/2023 7:27:48 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: Elsie

AI is going to take out as many high end jobs as low end jobs.

The high end earners are the ones powering consumer spending.

Some fields like Medicine and Law will be protected by laws and powerful cartels restricting what AI is allowed to do.

Not so sure about the rest of us.


115 posted on 05/17/2023 7:37:04 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: Nailbiter

so if all workers are replaced by AI.

1.Who will be using the drive thru
2. Who will own a vehicle to use in the drive thru.
3. Only motorized vehicles are allowed in most drive thru’s, bike and pedestrians are banned


116 posted on 05/17/2023 7:39:11 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Spktyr

Automat?


117 posted on 05/17/2023 7:41:24 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: cba123

I am damned happy that I am over the hill, in my 70s and don’t know how much longer the GOOD LORD will give me on this stinking cess pool of a planet, but I pray daily for the Harpazo/Rapturio/Catching Away/Rapture of His Church. Don’t know which one will get me first, I am praying for the big R, because if that happens, that means it’s soon. The only damned thing the communists in Sodom on the Potomac can do to me is take away my retirement, SS and VA disability or shoot me to save the money. But, this stinking wicked, sinful, cess pool, filthy, polluted, smelling, rock of a planet doesn’t have much longer to spin. Maranatha, Even So, Come LORD Yeshua!!!


118 posted on 05/17/2023 7:47:26 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: cba123

I welcome this development. With the way customer service and employees have been, I do not trust a human to make food for my consumption. Some of these places are truly horrific.


119 posted on 05/17/2023 7:51:53 AM PDT by RushCrush ( )
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To: cba123

Will there be a place to brawl?


120 posted on 05/17/2023 7:52:24 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Be calm and act.)
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