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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: cba123
Dr. Demento - Drive Through Order

Coming soon to a Wendy's near you!

61 posted on 05/17/2023 3:47:48 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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To: All
As we all know, robots really consist of only 2 things: mechanicals (including sensors, limps/joints, motors, skin, etc.) and a computer brain.

The brain component is about to take a quantum leap.

62 posted on 05/17/2023 3:51:49 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
I wonder if the bot can understand jive? Or ‘ebonics?

Give it a week until someone starts destroying the place by first punching out the touch screens , because the computers dont understand " gimme" or the patrons cant read.

One week in the wrong location. and the customers start fighting over who was in line first. Spit, punch, kick.

63 posted on 05/17/2023 3:55:00 AM PDT by Ikeon (The rivers of blood, the screams, are going to be unimaginable when Jesus comes back. )
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To: jmcenanly

:-))


64 posted on 05/17/2023 3:58:05 AM PDT by xenia ( “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Now if only they could get the people who prepare the orders to understand and correctly complete them.


65 posted on 05/17/2023 3:59:53 AM PDT by DaiHuy (I support LGBTQ. (Lets Get Biden to Quit.))
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To: newzjunkey
I am misunderstood by automated message systems and digital assistance speakers far too often.

Voice recognition software has been unsatisfactory forever.

66 posted on 05/17/2023 4:07:55 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Alvin Bragg: Giving Trumped-Up Charges a whole new meaning)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

...AI to understand customer requests ...

Oh, this will be fun
The human order takers voice comes through like mumbling, one can barely understand what they are saying.
They sound like the teacher in a Peanuts cartoon


67 posted on 05/17/2023 4:11:07 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: cba123

Every since robot workers became a reality (thanks to the auto industry) there is always a balance with the cost of the robot versus the cost of a human doing the same thing.

Now that the left managed to get the cost of minimum wage workers higher then the value they bring to the job, robots become more cost effective.

This is not the first time this has occurred and it will not be the last.

As a child of the 1950s I can think of dozen of jobs that that existed simply because labor was cheap. Anyone remember going to a gas station in the 1950s and having several attendants surround your car washing your windows, checking tire pressure and oil levels all while filling the tank with 25 cents a gallon of gas?

Or go into a store and there would be many clerks there ready and willing to help you.

Don’t forget office workers, the secretaries and mail clerks and janitors, receptionist and so on.

The milkman, iceman and the bakery goods guy all were able to support a family on their low wages. All gone now.

Technology and labor cost either made their work redundant or too expensive for businesses.

So yes, fast food places are going with more automation and less humans (as is any other business that can will).

Not just the US but the world is going to face a surplus of labor, then what is going to happen?

Wars and Pandemics have been used in the past to reduce the population but surely today’s leaders would not do that, would they?


68 posted on 05/17/2023 4:21:22 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: PLMerite

Well yah, eventually there will be nobody to start a major brawl with when the chiken nugs come out cold.

It’ s gonna be flustercating.


69 posted on 05/17/2023 4:29:05 AM PDT by dforest
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To: cba123

Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us.


70 posted on 05/17/2023 4:39:04 AM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: CaptainK

“ When AI takes over and nobody has a decent paying job, how can the economy of the country survive?”

Same thing has been said for decades


71 posted on 05/17/2023 4:39:33 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

This is different.


72 posted on 05/17/2023 4:40:22 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Eccl 10:2

“Supplied by driverless trucks through secure portals” made me think of soylent green for just a brief moment. Not sure why but I had visions of driverless trucks leaving the morgue and plopping the bodies at the prep tables for making the freshly prepared burgers. But THAT could never happen...right?


73 posted on 05/17/2023 4:45:19 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: cba123

AI might even improve that joint. Maybe Wendy’s was good at one point in time when Dave was still around but some of the dirtiest restaurants I have ever seen have been Wendy’s and they seem to always screw up my order so I quit going there over a decade ago.

All I ever wanted was a burger with mustard and pickle, for some weird reason Wendy’s felt the need to scrape the ketchup off of the burger and put the ketchup stained bun back on the top of the burger and call it a mustard with pickle, that’s messed up. Plus their grease in their friers always seem on the verge of breaking. I eat fast food rarely but I’m on the road sometimes I don’t have a choice. Might go to is a Taco Bell bean burrito hold the onions.

The only restaurant that hasn’t screwed up an order for me personally has been McDonald’s and I don’t really even like McDonald’s but they can actually understand what I want when I say a hamburger with mustard and pickle only. That means no onions no ketchup just mustard and pickle. Everybody else is hiring morons to take orders, AI will fix that... maybe.


74 posted on 05/17/2023 4:52:57 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Very quickly, the $5 million per year “news” anchor will disappear to an AI stand-in which will write its own slanted material. Much the same for the college professor and much of corporate middle management.



75 posted on 05/17/2023 4:56:33 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Since American women are on strike and not dutifully producing children, the population is not growing. That is, there are not enough workers to fill the jobs available.

Robots can increase the number of available humans in the workforce.

So....... what is better. Robots or the Democrat induced population growth of aliens from hondorous?


76 posted on 05/17/2023 5:01:02 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: desertfreedom765

“So if everyone if fired by AI who is going to have the money to buy their products?”

Now there is the true cause and effect they are considering. They are stepping on their own toes.


77 posted on 05/17/2023 5:03:42 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Depends on how big it's vocabulary is.



78 posted on 05/17/2023 5:05:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: frank ballenger
See if robots can fight that human customer element.



79 posted on 05/17/2023 5:08:09 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

Our local TB has no menu inside, except at the kiosks.

Your order is only as messed up as you make it.


80 posted on 05/17/2023 5:09:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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