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A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time (www.businessinsider.com)
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A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time::Presto Automations recently admitted that most of the orders taken by its AI drive-thru chatbot are actually assisted by off-site human workers.

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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The article states 30% of those jobs are lost. And the 70% that are working are training the models. It is very normal that they start with a lot of oversight, manual intervention and hypercare, they are likely training the models to little my little reduce the amount of people. I don't work in this company, but in a similar one and I don't want to think how many people lost their job because of what we did.

AI has already replaced ton of jobs, after all it can be used as a form of automation. Media is over hyping it's current capabilities, but this is moving forward.

[–] grue@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The article states 30% of those jobs are lost.

And good riddance, too! The fewer lives wasted doing menial fast-food jobs, the better.

Edit: imagine simping for minimum-wage shit-jobs. Y'all are like crabs in a bucket.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Only if there is another, better, source of income.

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Please let it be UBI, please let it be UBI... 🤞🤞

[–] Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's spamming that guys phone to get get is spcial security number.