{"id":12335,"date":"2024-11-15T18:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T01:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12335"},"modified":"2024-09-21T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T01:49:15","slug":"mcdonalds-quits-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12335","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s quits AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s is ending a test run of AI drive-thrus. It paired with IBM and put it in more than 100 restaurants since 2021. The goal was to simplify voice-activated ordering. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jackkelly\/2024\/07\/26\/california-20-minimum-wage-fast-food-impact\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jackkelly\/2024\/07\/26\/california-20-minimum-wage-fast-food-impact\/\">certainly couldn&#8217;t have anything to do with replacing workers with automation given the new $20\/hour minimum wage for fast food restaurants<\/a> (CA is considering another 3.5% increase in 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two sources familiar with the technology told CNBC that among its challenges, it had issues interpreting different accents and dialects, which affected order accuracy. McDonald&#8217;s will keep using IBM&#8217;s other solutions, but AI ordering seems to be on hold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reminds me of some issues iPhone has in Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q7Vontrxbqo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald&#8217;s is ending a test run of AI drive-thrus. It paired with IBM and put it in more than 100 restaurants since 2021. The goal was to simplify voice-activated ordering. It certainly couldn&#8217;t have anything to do with replacing workers with automation given the new $20\/hour minimum wage for fast food restaurants (CA is considering another 3.5% increase in 2025). Two sources familiar with the technology told CNBC that among its challenges, it had issues interpreting different accents and dialects,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12335\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3cX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12338,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions\/12338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}