This is for the drive-thru, so you aren’t punching in what you want. You are looking out of your car window and saying what you want into a microphone for someone to jot down. This is trying to replace the employee taking the order.
Speech to Text -> NLU -> Ordered summarized -> human for review (we hope?) -> order placed. They are using these to reduce the labor demand on the human portion, and I presume at some point the “to human for review” will just go away, if they get the accuracy dialed in.
The shitty part is, it’s not like they are saving much money, since those jobs pay shit anyways. I have to wonder what the ROI is on replacing the electronics and hooking all that up, plus the R&D that went into the system itself, is.
What part of an order-taking system would even use AI? You punch in what you want and pay. Where does AI enter the picture?
This is for the drive-thru, so you aren’t punching in what you want. You are looking out of your car window and saying what you want into a microphone for someone to jot down. This is trying to replace the employee taking the order.
Lmfao voice recognition can’t even handle accents i’d love to see it translate “double flurry mcyumbo”
Agree, Google used to be able to turn a light on and off if you enunciated it very clearly. Used to. Before the Gemini “upgrade”.
Speech to Text -> NLU -> Ordered summarized -> human for review (we hope?) -> order placed. They are using these to reduce the labor demand on the human portion, and I presume at some point the “to human for review” will just go away, if they get the accuracy dialed in.
The shitty part is, it’s not like they are saving much money, since those jobs pay shit anyways. I have to wonder what the ROI is on replacing the electronics and hooking all that up, plus the R&D that went into the system itself, is.