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Re: Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Post by grishka »

akerl_ wrote: post #59
grishka wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about international travelers who don't have an internationally accepted payment card because their home country was mostly isolated from the banking system in a mostly futile attempt to punish its government?

I don't think cash is saving anyone from the knock-on effects of international sanctions on their citizens. The same people who don't have access to a Visa because they're citizens of a sanctioned country aren't in a position to easily turn their local currency into USD, and the ways they'd start to earn money outside of the sanction bubble overlap the ways they'd get an internationally accepted payment card.

You can freely exchange Russian rubles to US dollars and back. Many people I know travel like that.

Re: Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Post by ggghgcdd »

sneak wrote: post #23
jameslk wrote: post #15

When the AI gladly accepts orders that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or 18,000 cups of water, it’s probably not production ready https://youtube.com/shorts/FDZj6DCWlfc https://www.tiktok.com/@90daygrinder/video/75355084374472983... (another example from a different chain)

This is solved easily by one additional sanity check API call to a different AI. I’m not sure why people think these bugs are like, complete showstopper insurmountable things. It’s a quick fix.

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Re: Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

goalieca wrote: post #34
Aurornis wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The poor quality of drive through communication is a common joke because it’s such a universal experience.

Hasn’t been the case since the 80s. Speaker tech works really well these days.

I disagree. First, there’s a 40-year chasm between the 80s and “these days”. Next - anecdata? I have found horrible drive thru audio systems in the past decade, let alone in the last millennium.

I usually prefer to park the car, go and order to go inside.

Re: Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Post by lordnacho »

Why order when you arrive at the place? Just have people talk to their phones, and make sure the order has some sanity checks and orders something similar to what they can order online? There's less noise talking to your phone, and you can do it without being in line.

Re: Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Post by justsomehnguy »

akerl_ wrote: post #36
sneak wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can’t pay in cash via an app. An alternate reality where nobody can transact without the state seeing it in realtime and having a veto over it (without any burden of proof) is not glorious; that’s called a dystopia. Just because the capability has never been leveled at you personally doesn’t mean that’s a world in which you wish to live.

I’m pretty ok with cash ceasing to exist.

Makes me wonder how fast you would change your mind you would get locked out of your cashless method of payment.

Yes, I it happened to me and it wasn't pleasant.

Re: Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Post by micromacrofoot »

lordnacho wrote: post #64

Why order when you arrive at the place? Just have people talk to their phones, and make sure the order has some sanity checks and orders something similar to what they can order online? There's less noise talking to your phone, and you can do it without being in line.

still a significant number of people who can't use phones well enough to do this, and a bunch of other people who wouldn't want to download spyware to do so

Re: Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Post by micromacrofoot »

PapaPalpatine wrote: post #11
acdha wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’re usually a lot slower than going inside and people have been cracking jokes about the quality of the speakers since the 80s.

Yeah... that's just not the experience with drive-thrus in Central Ohio.

oh central ohio, well in that case it's definitely everyone else that is wrong

Re: Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Post by jameslk »

lordnacho wrote: post #64

Why order when you arrive at the place? Just have people talk to their phones, and make sure the order has some sanity checks and orders something similar to what they can order online? There's less noise talking to your phone, and you can do it without being in line.

Some assumptions it seems you’re making:

* The customer has a phone

* The customer knows how to use the phone to do what you’re expecting

* The customer has cell service in their location

* The customer has the patience or ability to order before arriving at the restaurant

Re: Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Post by micromacrofoot »

acdha wrote: post #13
PapaPalpatine wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah... that's just not the experience with drive-thrus in Central Ohio.

Maybe they’re less busy there but everywhere I went in California it was faster to park and walk inside if there was anyone in line ahead of you, which was almost always the case. The problem is that you’re limited by the slowest order ahead of you but the same place usually has multiple registers inside and the people who are waiting for pickup don’t block you from ordering. (Head of line blocking in real life) This…

people rather sit in their car for 15 minutes than walk for 1 to save 10

Re: Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Post by imtringued »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #2

Mind boggling that they would roll it out at scale without testing. Using open ended natural language to make a multiple choice selection (choose a taco) seems like a way to massively complicate a simple problem. What next - have a humanoid robot bring the food out to the car? Looking forward to more "AI Darwin Award" stories!

Having a cat robot deliver food to your car in the parking lot would definitely be more efficient than drive through.
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