Phil Lewis: McDonald’s is ditching its drive-through AI ordering system after too many customers wound up with totally incorrect orders like a handful of butter, hundreds of chicken nuggets, and ice cream loaded with bacon

McDonald’s is ditching its drive-through AI ordering system after too many customers wound up with totally incorrect orders like a handful of butter, hundreds of chicken nuggets, and ice cream loaded with bacon

Bacon ice cream: McDonald's AI drive-thru ordering full of glitches - Fast Companywww.fastcompany.com The fast-food giant is ending its testing of voice-automated ordering systems and going back to human workers at the window.

This was supposed to be a funny article about AI sucking shit, then I got to the part about surge pricing ice cream when it's hot outside and now I think everyone should take turns throwing bricks through corporate windows.

Also, that you personally should be charged more because your profile indicates you like ice cream.

Grocery stores like Walmart want to do this too.

I want the bacon ice cream…

Yes please

The one thing I find very reassuring about AI is that by rushing this technology out, they’re so effectively killing it that even if it does improve at some point, the association is going to be so toxic to consumers and companies that it will never actually replace jobs.

It also helps that they paired it with getting rid of hundreds of thousands of employees across the industry, idiots targeted their older, more tenured employees to save money right as they needed them most to fine tune the tech. Oh well for them, love to see hubris become karma.

Ice cream loaded with bacon is actually genius

But yes let's apply a bad speech to text thing that is connected to a bad microphone to a text generator that is almost as good as a high school kid. What could possibly go wrong

Not even as good as a kindergartener.

Didn't that actually exist for a while? Back when Bacon was a meme?

Denny's had it once during their Baconalia event. It wasn't bad.

I don't know but I would not be surprised

I know you can have bacon added to your milkshake at Five Guys, unless that's some odd derangement specific to the guy who runs the shake machine at the store nearest me. He always asks if I want it, but I always decline. I do not approve of chunky milkshakes.

No, it's a real option. It's like, maple bacon.

www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/so...

Sonic's Peanut Butter Bacon Shake Review: It's Pretty Good, But Needs More Porkwww.yahoo.com Sonic has released a new Peanut Butter Bacon Shake as a limited-time menu offering. It's quite tasty, though you may not to ready to call it a home run.

Nice

Egg McMuffin on their faces

Those poor McDonalds workers when hundreds of nuggets pops up on the screen. I had to do a 120 nugget order when we were short staffed once. It was rough. The friers really don't like taking that much nuggie at once.

A hundred years ago I was on a field trip, where it was my class, as well as one other, and the teachers got the brilliant idea to walk into a McDonald's and order 50 cheeseburgers.

Damn if I'd known I could get a handful of butter, I'd've gone to McDonald's more often.

God bless the people who did not correct these errors

Why help out the shitty new coworker (AI)? Better strategy to watch him screw up until he gets fired. 😄

If no one was served glue I’d say we’re making progress.

Oh like you never sampled a little paste in elementary school 🤣

AI, in theory works. AI in reality doesn't.

They're great for specific use cases but this isn't one of them.

Well, this shit being pushed into everything isn’t AI anyway. We haven’t gotten to real AI yet.

if AI is being trained using free content on the internet, it will learn hate, violence, mental illness, scamming and lying. Which is generally what AI has already demonstrated. the internet is a cesspool

Ice cream with bacon tho. Vanilla soft serve with candied bacon bits mixed in like a McFlurry.

Cheif Restaurant Officer Mason Smoot

He says AI doesn't measure up. He'd know!

Yo yo yo……I have until July 26 to go fuck with an AI ordering system?

Who writes this stuff?

McDonald's seems to have skipped beta testing.

As has Tesla and so on.

As has every other tech company, at this point. The computer industry is a fucking disaster.

Someone found the Infinite Nugget Glitch and didn’t share?

let it cook

NOt saying I would, but hypothetically, COULD I order a handful of butter at a McDonald’s drive through? Is that on their secret menu?

They do have some butter equivalent at breakfast for the biscuits and hotcakes, so you could probably convince someone to give you a bunch of that. But it's a lot funnier to imagine a literal scoop of melting butter just plopped into an outstretched hand at the drive-through

Thats what I’m imagining

How does a handful of butter even work? Like, if you asked a McDonald's cashier to give you that, would they be able to? I sorta want to head to McDonalds and try it....

Works something like this, I think youtu.be/pUn3gf-0VlY?...

WKUK - Butter Barsyoutu.be Season 4 Episode 7 of Whitest Kids U'Know

The AI fantasy is crumbling under the weight of reality.

"but the AI-driven menu could also change prices of more in-demand items—like boosting the price of ice cream on a hot day." Well, that's a guarantee I never visit your business ever.

Openly bragging about their plans to price gouge customers. Shameless.

Sucked for the ones with thick accents. www.youtube.com/shorts/E3ikc...

Ole boy speaks a furrin language at the drive thruwww.youtube.com

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