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McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've heard a few instances in which "AI" is just a bunch people responding to a voice to text feed in the Philippines.

So much of this isn't really technology. It's just a new kind of service sector outsourcing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Amazons Mechanical turk in a nutshell

I think McDs always planned to roll out remote customer service to really maximize capitalism. And wrapping it under AI because that's a trendy buzzword!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This reminds me of a post I saw once were someone said AI stood for Actually Indian