But does it? I've read it adds that chat to its collection of "stuff" (ie it feeds on itself which looks like another problem to me given the quality of its chats).
When I opened my first restaurant, in 1987, our most popular footlong sandwich was $2.99 or $3.99. I never eat there anymore but, last time I checked, that same sandwich was $8.99.
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I already started a thread about that:AI Agents can't even take drive-thru orders right.
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
The fast food chain is reassessing its use of the tech after a number of errors were shared widely online.
When this bubble burst it is going to take the market with it.
Well, Taco Bell never considered people with thick accents... what they need is a QR code that someone can drive up, scan, and then order on the phone whatever's on the menu. The way I see it, it's just a matter of having your act together. I drive away if I see voice ordering.
I don't know what it's like now but, a few years ago, Instacart orders were filled by the same drivers who delivered your groceries. That said, looking at the instacart people at my local store, things may have changed to some extent.
The system at Subway, when that first got a central system, was a horrible mess. Daily reports were sent to a central system and updates were initiated by that. If anything screwed up, you could be down for hours with no one available to help. Of course, service was done by some outside company and calling Subway for help wouldn't get you anywhere.
'Growing Pains' is one way to describe the mess... I was kind of forced into using the system. When I first started, the lead times between ordering stuff and actually getting were so long that it actually made more sense to just ride over to the store and get the stuff myself using the old-fashioned, in-person way. I did complain in the right channels that it's taking forever. Nowadays the lead time is about an hour.
See I cannot fathom this. I need to smell my produce and touch my watermellons. Look at the bread and maybe squeeze it. Poke my porkchops.
I have the same attitude, frankly. I need to see that the cucumbers are not soft and tired-ass. I need to inspect all 12 eggs in the carton to make sure they're not broken. It did take me some time to figure out acceptable options that I can ask the Instacart staff to pick for me. If I have to use the system, I gotta squeeze it for something actually useful to me.
I do see AI-powered snack deliveries, though... they look like coolers on wheels, and are restricted to a relatively small part of town, a college campus full of kids too lazy to walk a few blocks to the participating eatery. Those coolers did learn to use crosswalks properly, but I keep suspecting that those crosswalks got rigged with underground sensors to help things along.
None taken. There are some decent ones but few and far between. My shops were cream of the crop and I wouldn't stand for less.
Yes - I read (a lot). If the whole point of AI is to skip the read step, and some how skip the knowledge acquisition step, it's probably not going to go well. You gain a lot more insite about how and why some thing is done when you take the time to study it.
. Humans ask other humans questions all the time. Not really understanding why AI's can't ask questions of either other AI's or humans. Strangely the (same AI) places orders for bottled water literally 24 hours a day and similarly can't tell that ordering 18,000 bottles of water is an anomaly? It's pretty clear the "learning" part of AI is being skipped.Some of us, who are “on the spectrum”, will also go for option 1, without asking too much questions about it – customer asked for 18K bottles and customer is always right, right?The Taco Bell example is a good one:
AI gets an order for 18,000 bottles of water.
What does the AI do?
For some strange reason... (#2) is never a choice
- Immediately places the customer order for 18,000 bottles of water.
- (OR) asks a human "Hay! I just got an order for 18,000 bottles of water. That seems like a lot because I usually only get bottled water orders for 1x or 2x bottles. Should I complete this order?"
Even with a non-AI setup (like a vending machine), you'd think there'd be some limits programmed in, and machine would say, "Please select between 1 and 20 bottles". You gotta question if AI is really necessary in some setups, or are we better off with a simple vending machine that is conveniently located?
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Wrong. And I would preach that to my employees. You can bend but don't break for customers who misunderstand something.
Well, nowadays whole saying is “customer is always right - in the matters of taste”. There is no evidence that Selfridge ever said this exact phrase, but I like it nevertheless. If customer likes water so much, it’s not my place to judge them nor argue with them!
Yeah, but if you know that this is not a typical amout to order, that people normally buy 10 at most, you can always say that you'll be happy to sell up to 10, but beyond that, you'll need permission from your boss.Well, nowadays whole saying is “customer is always right - in the matters of taste”. There is no evidence that Selfridge ever said this exact phrase, but I like it nevertheless. If customer likes water so much, it’s not my place to judge them nor argue with them!
We don’t know circumstances of that 18K bottles order – what if customer wanted to be charitable and help Skid Row homeless folks, that will be like what, only 3 bottles per person there? Or maybe they wanted it for a Rave party? As for the Moon, few companies are selling "deeds" to a piece of the Moon, arguing that 1967 Outer Space Treaty does not prohibit private ownership
