Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
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The LLM is taking the order
What's wrong with an input machine with buttons or touch screen?
not as hype-able to the csuites and ceos.
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I've never liked most of their food, but you used to be able to get a hot, cheap, and quick meal there. And at least the fries were tasty, and the Coca-Cola was perfect.
In the 80s and 90s, going to McDonald's felt like a guilty pleasure. It felt cheap, but you were in on it so it was ok.
Now it feels cheap at your expense. It's sparse, like they're providing the minimal viable product. The fries are garbage, the Coke is garbage, and the service is garbage.
now its shrinkflation, and expensive, while its "cheap" too.
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Nobody is developing current LLMs. They're just feeding it garbage from previous versions.
LLMs buit Llm, built on llms. basically its just kiting/fraud with extra steps.
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Everyone has already been conditioned to be okay with "John" from Hyderabad speaking to you in incomprehensible accent on every customer service line. So this wouldn't be any different.
AI=always indians.
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can't believe they saw how shitty mcdonalds became with all their kiosks and automation and thought yeah i want that for me
Kiosks are better. I can browse the menu and make up my mind, add and remove items until my order is right. Then from my side the order is always correct, nothing is missing, nobody mishears what I wanted
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Wait people eat at A&W? Is it any good?
There are multiple around me and I feel like I never see anyone in them and I myself have never been in 40+ years.
I have been to most every other fast food place more times than I can remember.
Only time I ever ate at an a&w was in Bangkok 25 years ago...
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Wait people eat at A&W? Is it any good?
There are multiple around me and I feel like I never see anyone in them and I myself have never been in 40+ years.
I have been to most every other fast food place more times than I can remember.
I'd rather eat at an A&W than a McDonalds or a Burger King, too easy.
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Food waste is a large greenhouse gas producer. The costs that impact the business P&L might be baked into item cost but the environmental cost is being externalized and everyone pays.
Yep, we definitely don't have any kind of law prohibiting a business from disposing of food waste en masse.
We do have a ton of liability laws that would punish them from distributing leftover food though, should someone get sick after it is distributed.
Also don't have any kind of thing preventing households from wasting food either. I suspect countless of perfectly fine meals are disposed of every single day, probably enough to feed the country twice over, if not more.
It's a tough problem in a land of excess without near-total elimination of privacy and agency.
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Unless the drinks are made automatically by a machine - I know McDonalds had those at least 10 years ago, so it would make sense that at least one Taco Bell has it. The customer could have gotten through the 'payment' of $0.00, and the employees might not have a quick way of cancelling an order that 'was paid for' and currently being made, but the article doesn't go into detail.
I don't think "fully auto drink machines" like what miso makes are really anywhere today.
Even the fully automatic solutions that do exist have limits to output which require human intervention. There's no drink machine spitting outputs directly to people waiting in cars at drive through windows.
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I don't think "fully auto drink machines" like what miso makes are really anywhere today.
Even the fully automatic solutions that do exist have limits to output which require human intervention. There's no drink machine spitting outputs directly to people waiting in cars at drive through windows.
I'm not saying they output directly to people's car. I'm saying they have a queue of 15 or so drinks that they make where the employee only has to put the lid on the drink. You can't fill any other orders if that machine is busy waiting for you to put the lid on a water so it can produce another 17,984 waters.
