A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time::Presto Automations recently admitted that most of the orders taken by its AI drive-thru chatbot are actually assisted by off-site human workers.
One would think that by now, these companies would have built up enough training data to no longer require human intervention?
Is their existing “AI” tech just your usual old chatbot, except with a STT and TTS so it’s usable at a drive thru? The article only mentions that they started recently using ChatGPT to assist with speech recognition… so unless I missed it, there’s no mention of their current tech using LLMs at all - just another company trying to climb on board the AI hype train 🤦♂️
Presto said that off-site workers based in places like the Philippines that assist the chatbots will becoming [sic] increasingly expensive, Bloomberg reported.
Good. People in countries who aren’t so well off shouldn’t be exploited as cheap & disposable call center labor IMO.
Not using a LLM is clearly a mistake.
I bet if you provided ChatGPT the menu along with the spoken text it would figure it out no problem.
I guess the STT is a bigger issue.
Sorry, as an AI language model I am not capable of preparing food for you.
Remember when people were conspiracy theorists for saying AI would replace a ton of people’s jobs?
Remember when they promised us advances in technology would mean we would work less while enjoying a life of leisure?
I ran into an AI order taker at a checkers. It was very weird and generally a bad experience
I can’t tell if it’s AI or just text to speech. Could be someone pressing a button.
It was definitely more akin to one of those awful phone lines where you have to say something to progress than someone pressing buttons