Fuck AI

Let's be clear here. If politicians aren't competent enough to make burgers or serve orders, they're not competent enough to run countries.

Wanted a technical tweaking guide based on other hardware specifics, which had an anti-AI license on it, basically every model:

"Reworking this specific text through an AI service is exactly what that license carves out, so I can't use this document as the basis for the new guide. What I can do is write you a fresh, original guide"

Some high level dribbling and bullshittery lol... have fun as an enterprise burning down ur business cause that trillion dollar clanker doesn't care lol

If you cannot get the right burger from an Al customer service bot, it is not an appropriate tool for education, tutoring, or any other high-stakes task.

It's not an appropriate tool for those things, no. But this is a fallacious statement. These companies are not utilizing good AI models in their drive through software, they're using the cheapest, most bare-minimum models they can possibly get their hands on. But even if they use good models and do solve AI food ordering, even if they do manage to make it as good as a human for the task, it will still not be an appropriate tool for education or tutoring.

Nah, bro. AGI is just around the corner, fr fr. Hear me out, bro, it's gonna be so lit for everyone! Come on, bro! Fucking utopia!

/s as if I really need it

Altman could be taking billions by offering a CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO and management AI.

It's a crazy idea, I know. But in the office of office of redundant redundancy redundancy, management tends to be too thick and ineffective and inefficient. If we could just replace those hard to do things with AI, the management team might be free to learn other things and do other things.

They shoulda tested it in the corporate offices instead of on the front line. Everyone knows the front line work is way harder and way more stressful than preparing and filing the TPS reports.

translation: we tried to replace the functions of yet more of our employees and can not yet, effectively, automate more of them out of a job. But we're working on it.

“Because it’s 2024. 2026 models are way better!”

“What do you mean each order costs $3 in tokens? We pay those employees $6 per hour!”

Checkers by me is using it now and its 10x slower and so wrong. I always have to ask for a human to get on the line. My little ice cream cone and mozzarella sticks aren't worth it any more, so I don't go.

You mean the thing that misinterpreted orders from a small list of choices would potentially identify and bomb an all girls children's school if used by the military?

It's hard enough to get a human to understand your order through those crappy microphones.

My friend who works at McDs says people at the drive thru dont believe he's a human no matter how much he tries to reassure them.

Handily demonstrating, again, that frontline customer service is skilled labour.

I hope it cost them a lot of money to implement and then to remove it. As long as it ate into their profits I don't care

McDonald's is removing artificial intelligence (AI) powered ordering technology from its drive-through restaurants in the US, after customers shared its comical mishaps online.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722gne7qngo [2024-06-18]

I don't do fast food all that often, but if I'm in the mood for a burger or taco or whatever, I'll sometimes visit one.

Many in my area are still humans on the other end of the drive-through, but I sometimes get a chatbot.

I haven't done this, because I don't want the fallout to hit the underpaid human workers on the other end, but I have a fantasy of ordering 1000 tacos or chicken nuggets or something and then just driving away. Honestly, this is a likely root cause of the "misinterpreted orders" that others have seen: they were behind someone like me who was fed up enough to go through with it.

This isn't to discount the various other ways LLMs can screw up.

McDonald’s told franchisees it would remove the tech...

I suspect this is also a franchisee option. Even if the brand isn't forcing it, I think the local stores can implement their own independently. It'd be neat if a brand put no-ai in their franchise agreements. I'd give that brand more attention.

While I agree with the message, the argument is undermined by the fact that it considers a customer service bot to be comparable to the models used by students and tutors. Those people would not find this argument convincing because they know McDonald's is using shitty models to save costs.

Can't do a minimum wage job yet they expect it to take over $90k+ salary jobs

I stopped going to fast food restaurants when they added these dumb AI bots. It barely could function when you wanted to do a simple modification to an order and it basically couldn't answer any questions about the menu you may have. Seemed like seasonal items or promotions were outside of its training data as well.

Just 2 more years!

/s for those of dilatory cognitive ability

Just proves that serving at mcD takes higher levels of cognition than writing code.