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Taco Bell is rolling out AI ordering in hundreds of drive-thrus. Here's how it works
ZDnet ^ | 8/1/24 | Artie Beaty, Contributing Writer

Posted on 08/01/2024 10:06:56 AM PDT by DallasBiff

AI technology is coming to Taco Bell, hopefully freeing up employees to lessen your wait time and provide better service.


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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Food
KEYWORDS: ai; tacobell
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To: no-to-illegals

Unless you become Jeremiah Johnson you’ll comply without even knowing it. Properly programmed and sampled you’ll have no way to know if the voice coming from the speaker is attached to a human or bot generated. It’ll will be the standard drivethru experience for you, it’s just the other side where the ordering system itself is talking to you and entering data that will change.


61 posted on 08/01/2024 11:36:20 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

“It is like self-checkout at the grocery store. “

Nope. It is like where you place your order without going in and the bag person then brings it to you.


62 posted on 08/01/2024 11:38:15 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: DallasBiff

Instead of training their employees they are attempting to train their customers.

I have refused to use self check out, and I have refused to use the Kiosk, and I have refused to use those computer things on tables in restaurants.

To all you businesses getting rid of staff and making the customer do your job for you, thank you, I am saving money and I feel healthier.


63 posted on 08/01/2024 11:39:19 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: discostu

I talk to a human or there is no order. Sorry. Never do talk to a voice box or through a voice box when I order food. Sorry.


64 posted on 08/01/2024 11:40:01 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: no-to-illegals

“I will not use a machine to order food. No thanks.”

You would rather have a minimum wage person screw up your order while entering it into that machine?


65 posted on 08/01/2024 11:40:45 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: discostu

Oh btw, I prepare the majority of my meals. Fast food isn’t healthy, imo.


66 posted on 08/01/2024 11:42:37 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: no-to-illegals

But you won’t know. Sorry yourself. Again, unless you go full mountain man this IS going to happen. All the drivethrus will be chatbots (I don’t like calling them AI cause that isn’t AI).
And inside is going to be kiosk boards.
So if you get food anywhere it will not be people. Sorry.


67 posted on 08/01/2024 11:43:15 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: no-to-illegals

Nobody goes to fast food for their health.


68 posted on 08/01/2024 11:43:40 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: TexasGator

Do you work for a firm that sells or distributes AI ?


69 posted on 08/01/2024 11:44:42 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: steve86

“Why wouldn’t you be able to special order with the AI interface?”

You can.


70 posted on 08/01/2024 11:44:54 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: no-to-illegals

“What, the food ?”

Can you use proper grammar? I have no idea what you mean.


71 posted on 08/01/2024 11:46:22 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: discostu

Not true for my lifetime. If others fall for the scam, will be their business.


72 posted on 08/01/2024 11:46:27 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: no-to-illegals

“Do you work for a firm that sells or distributes AI ?”

Are you a Taco Bell order clerk?


73 posted on 08/01/2024 11:47:15 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

You must be AI ….. LOL


74 posted on 08/01/2024 11:47:24 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: TexasGator

I didn’t insult you so why do you insult me ?


75 posted on 08/01/2024 11:48:21 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: TexasGator

Yes, of course you can. As I indicated in my other comment, AI can make sense of mistakes and poor phrasing I write that I can hardly figure out later.


76 posted on 08/01/2024 11:50:07 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: discostu

“Nobody goes to fast food for their health.”

I do. When my wife says she wants to skip cooking dinner for the day and suggests I run out to get burgers ...


77 posted on 08/01/2024 11:50:14 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: no-to-illegals

“I talk to a human or there is no order. Sorry. Never do talk to a voice box or through a voice box when I order food. Sorry.”

You never do drive-throughs?


78 posted on 08/01/2024 11:51:54 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Brian Griffin

The only thing I like about them is the light ketchup option.

When I order with a human no matter what I say they put so much on I wonder if there was anything left in the bottle.

I also joke as to when I will have to go back in the kitchen and make the order myself


79 posted on 08/01/2024 11:53:01 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: TexasGator

Do not do drive throughs or drive-bys. I order on the inside. No person, no order.


80 posted on 08/01/2024 11:54:00 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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