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The article quotes an executive saying they're indeed backing down, just like McDonalds did the year before when they tried this.

The luddites didn't hate machines because they loved manual labor...

They wanted to ensure that mechanization benefited the workers via less hours and increased wages rather than the same wages and less jobs to go around.

Destroying mechanization was just an accomplishable goal in that fight.

What you're doing is falling for propaganda from a long ass time ago by the owner class...

i guess?? but where does the energy and human labor come from in this "fair world"?? coal and wages?

automated luxury space communism is not upon us, we are only a few hundred years from the advent of industrialisation.

we are at the point were social democracies are barely functioning and fascism is still on the rise due to small time dilemmas and culture war. the working class has not been made conscious, and probably wont be for another couple decades.

"ai" is just another corporate invention to steal and resell working class labor for the rich, the "fair world" you ask for was appropriated in the 50s for western exceptionalism and neo colonialism.

edit for; this is a terrible description and barely touches the real world. i hope ypu understand what this drunk man is trying to say

The LLM isn't limited to just what it does. It can interact with other programs.

There are a ton of audio recognition systems available, almost all of them predate this LLM bubble. There's already an API for interacting with the ordering system. So it's just down to having the LLM pull what is then do that corresponding action for the order.

This is so simple it doesn't require anything nearly as complicated as an LLM. The old phone assistants like Siri and Alexa could do this type of thing. It's literally the same as telling Alexa to place an order for something, and that's been an ability for years.

Its just an API.

There's a few ways they could go about it. They could have part of the prompt be something like "when the customer is done taking their order, create a JSON file with the order contents" and set up a dumb register essentially that looks for those files and adds that order like a standard POS would.

They could spell out a tutorial in the prompt, "to order a number 6 meal, type "system.order.meal(6)" calling the same functions that a POS system would, and have that output right to a terminal.

They could have their POS system be open on an internal screen, and have a model that can process images, and have it specify a coordinate pair, to simulate a touch screen, and make it manually enter an order that way as an employee would.

There's lots of ways to hook up the AI, and it's not actually that different from hooking up a normal POS system in the first place, although just because one method does allow an AI to interact doesn't mean it'll go about it correctly.