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Why not just have the AI say please and thank you at every possible opportunity on a loudspeaker?
Because AI is more likely to say "fuck you" and then rant about how the Holocaust wasn't real.
Because AI is more likely to say "fuck you" and then rant about how the Holocaust wasn't real.
If an AI can scam old people out of their retirement I dont understand how the drive through attendant isn't just replaced with an AI yet. I know easy to trick and all that but that's the one job most people hate at fast food. Add like 5 speakers so people can place 5 orders at once and then have the person go to work making food instead of taking orders.
Oh they're trying. Experiments have made so many mistakes.
I saw a story recently where a guy spent some time with a customer service chatbot, and ended up convincing it to give him 80% off, and then ordered like $6000 of stuff.
LLMs just don't produce reliable/predictable output, it's much easier for the user to get them to go off the rails.
McDonald's briefly had an AI run their drive thru. Apparently it got a lot of complaints, but honestly it massively improved my local McDonald's order accuracy and speed. It was significantly better than the extremely shitty employees they normally have working the line.
Underpaid and mistreated employees don't make for employees that go above and beyond.
Taco Bell had it, too. I have never actually completed a purchase with an AI.
Years ago, I adopted a personal policy of driving off as soon as a restaurant attempted to upsell. The Taco Bell AI always attempted to upsell me. 100% reliable on that offensive behavior. But what really and truly pissed me off was that even if I told it "No" or remained silent to its query, it always added the item to my order.
I'm happy to tank their KPIs as "reward" for their AI bullshit.
Taco Bell has already automated the drive though orders at a number of locations. The staff still have to listen to the conversation to make sure the AI agent doesn't go off the rails. I bet they've got some fun stories
Walking past a Taco Bell it seems someone competent implemented the system—seems to understand people just as well as the best software I’m aware of can.