Nemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoMcDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for nowwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up1518arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·5 months 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-squarePotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 months 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-squareSuperNinjaFury@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months 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