We’re now seeing what could possibly go wrong!
Didn’t test it first ? LOL
As I understand it, AI is generally 87% accurate......that number is low if you ask me.
I can only imagine the censoring the IT department has to do for the customer service reviews of the transcripts of the transactions. The profanity must be off the charts.
Fake news. Did Taco Bell actually serve 18,000 waters? No they did not.
A human mishears “18,000” and it’s a laugh, a machine mishears “18,000” and it’s top story, breaking news for the fake news media.
This is why, the few times I go to fast food, I always go inside, even though it is much slower. At least when there is a kiosk instead of a person, like at Taco Bell and McDonalds, I don’t have to worry about poor voice technology.
AI drive-through assistants will likely improve to where they’re reliable enough, but this idea of “general AI” that will be all-knowing and can be counted on to answer any question is a pipe-dream. Beyond a certain level of complexity, it becomes impossible to audit it and know how it is reaching its conclusions. And the more we depend upon it, the more our ability to do our own thinking atrophies, which just makes us more dependent upon the AI “black box” and less capable of critically evaluating its performance. That creates a downward spiral that leads to a point where all important decisions are made by the fallible and unaccountable AI, while humans sit in the corner drooling on themselves and accepting whatever nonsense the AI spits out.
The simplest COBOL system had programmers smart enough to put reasonable bounds on user entry (dates must not be Roman era, withdrawal amount must be > 0 and so forth)
What’s happening here is “ooo look it’s AI” is being used as if it meant “don’t bother with any software development standards like testing, it’s magic” which is itself a euphemism for “we can replace our expensive developers with $6/hr offshore”
This is the tech industry since 1999. Some bright guy creates a new thing … cloud, Agile, genAI, etc. It has a good foundation, a purpose and potential. The corrupt tech and consulting barons who sit underneath the globalist royalty (WEF etc … check their lists of “fellows”) pervert it into their ruinous agenda for replacement and societal destruction.
AI is not intelligence. It basically takes known information and averages it out to try to guess what might be the answer.
It’s just another treason not to go there…
Soon to be seen at a Cracker Barrel near you.
Has anyone done the Touring test on any of these AI systems yet?
I went to the article and could not find any links to the Instagram video of someone ordering 18,000 waters. So, then I searched with Google and ChatGPT and asked for “link to instagram video of AI app ordering 18,000 waters at Taco Bell” which took me to Instagram and the article, but still no video despite Instagram being a video site.
I did get a link to this sort of humorous unrelated video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tNK-3_H8h8U?feature=share
The problem is the corporate types do not understand the technology, but have seen a lot of science fiction.
OK, I found the video, but it is just stupid with a customer ordering 18,000 water cups and immediately getting handed off to an employee. Why is this even mentioned in an article, or supposed to be funny?
Here is the video on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DCE23x_RVVy/
and the same thing on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DF8Pny3VTg8
with the aim of reducing mistakes and speeding up orders reducing labor costs
Fixed. In California fast food workers earn $20/hour - soon to go up to $22, then $25/hour.
Result?
"Approximately 18,000 fast food jobs were lost in California following the state's minimum wage increase to $20 per hour for large chain restaurants, which took effect on April 1, 2024."
Doing the job Americans won't do, right? And to afford them a "middle class lifestyle" - according to Gavin Newsom.
It’s just the movie, “Idiocracy,” that has become reality with the scene of the Carls Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d7SaO0JAHk
This isn’t a problem with AI itself, it’s a problem with a poorly programmed application.
AI used correctly would have specifically solved this type of problem.
Someday, maybe, people will realize that AI is not intelligent, is not sentient, doesn’t know what it’s doing, and has no conscience.
They will continue to put AI in charge of things and continue to be surprised at the outcome.
When AI is given control of something, like for example the world, it will take it over or muck up real bad.