Man, I never used fast food, or drive throughs as much as I have since I developed a mobility disorder. Last week I put a pickup order in at my local coffee shop out of habit, and couldn't carry both my coffee and the breakfast sandwich to my car at the same time. Which sounds so stupid, but it took so much extra energy for both trips into the store that I was ready to go home and call it a day after that lol

I know the answer is "don't get fast food and just eat at home", but I've also been so tired after work/school that I'm not eating, and I dunno what the answer to that is either. My state isn't a place where people think about how to care for their communities, and most of it has hours of highway between "cities"

God damn. I was just about to invite you to the fuck cars community. In doing so, I needed the like with the !.

In trying to find it on the sidebar, I see you've found that community. As a mod.

Which means the whole basis for my comment is void before I even typed it!

On a similiar note....can you put the ! link in the sidebar?

People use touchscreens for accessing ATMs in the States.

Don't see why this couldn't be possible for fast food. There's proven technology that already exists

Edit: Just to add, fuck cars. And fuck anti-urban infrastructure. Maybe we should do away with touchscreens for fast food, as well as other pro car infrastructure. At least not incentivize it

You could basically get around this with 4 programmers and an expectation around word choice. Voice to text has improved massively, you could just require them to say menu items with modifiers

Not that I disagree about drive throughs in concept, but this is just another problem easily solved by anything but raw LLMs

I forgot that US cars are so massive that this is a problem.

Agree on the urban planning part.

Chick-fil-A even went the other way, putting 4 high schoolers out in the weather for it. Cold, hot, raining, doesn't matter.

That’s how my local Taco Bell is. If you don’t use your phone to place the order when you walk in there’s four kiosks you walk up to for placing your order. None of the people working are working the counter.

Most people have a hard enough time getting their car close enough to the window to get the food or to handle the card reader. I doubt many people would enjoy the toucn screen ordering as the would struggle tk get close enough and may have to lean way out of their window to order. The touch screen would also have to work reliably while wet or freezing cold.

Then you've got the issue of someone has to clean it and even with regular cleaning it has a huge potential to spread germs. Ultimately with all the disadvantages i think it would be too slow, too inconvenient, and add extra real estate to the drive thru.

Step 1: Replace your executive and board members with LLMs. Despite LLMs being increadibly unintelligent, there will be no loss of leadership IQ in the corporation because they were already unintelligent enough to put a LLM where it doesn't belong because they don't understand what it is and what it isn't.

Step 2: Enjoy the savings of those large useless eater salaries you no longer have to pay.

Capping waters fixes that one specific issue but not the problem.

A suspicious order isn't easy to define and no person who has ever participated in software development would underestimate the infinite ways a User can break software.

that's what happens 99% of the time. It's kinda been a trend on the anti clanker side of TikTok, just order a large amount of stuff so a human takes over and actually helps you

The point is that loopholes in software will always exist that lead to unexpected outcomes.

Why can't a trillion dollar AI say "Sir, that's not reasonable"?

It actually crashed, per the article. Presumably because it failed a sanity check.

What it makes me inclined to do is never use the drive-thru, personally.

At least i want to believe ear drums being flesh vibrate differently than non organic materials, cells squeeze and contract. The shape of the ear drum is different and the electric signal in the human body is different than electronic devices. It's just a tiny tiny amount in a human. higher voltages like outside the body change and shape the sound a bit or cause distortions of certain wavelengths of the sound. Just my general idea. I had an ex girlfriend who had a wind up shortwave radio and if using it wound up instead of plugged in to AC or battery she could hold a signal on to a weak station. And no matter the power of the other stations there was less static and distortions on easy to get broadcast or hard to get broadcast. This was just a pocket radio. The flow of electricity is different between those method ac vs dc. Was the kind that winded down as you use it. Power is more stable during wind up or something. I could be a little bit wrong on the radio part because i would have to have my ex girlfriend show me again and no way am i going to go talk to her after over 15 years.

And none of that is AI, if we use the term in a way that's useful and stop speaking in salesspeak. Machine learning algorythms, LLMs, all of that isn't AI in any meaningful sense of the word. It's all semantics of course, but the more sam altmans of the world are trying to blurry the line between intelligence and an algorythm that can identify a picture of hotdog, the more we kinda need to be stickers for the proper terminology. It was kinda cute at the beginning of this crazy cycle, but now when megacorpos are demanding all your data and putting their half-baked chatbots into everything, it's not cute anymore.

It's not AI unless it's running on a cluster of H200s. Anything else is just sparkling text prediction.