Nemeskicake to [email protected]English • 15 days agoMcDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for nowwww.theverge.commessage-square158fedilinkarrow-up1513cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•14 days agoI’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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•14 days agoAmazons 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!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•14 days agoThis reminds me of a post I saw once were someone said AI stood for Actually Indian
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.
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!
This reminds me of a post I saw once were someone said AI stood for Actually Indian