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McDonald’s Partners With IBM to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI

Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:27 pm
Posted by Jjdoc
Cali
Member since Mar 2016
55371 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:27 pm
You might not can buy stock in White Castle (racist name!!!) But you can in McDonalds.


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McAutomation

In 2019, the restaurant chain bought a tech startup called Apprente and renamed it McD Tech Labs. As part of the partnership, IBM will acquire the company.

McDonald’s has already tested the tech developed by Apprente at several restaurants in Chicago this summer.

At the time, McDonald’s claimed the system could already handle about 80 percent of the orders that come its way, filling them with about 85 percent accuracy.


This is from last year!

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Posted by Origins of Asymmetry
Member since Feb 2022
724 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:27 pm to
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You might not can buy

Posted by UcobiaA
The Gump
Member since Nov 2010
4124 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:28 pm to
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filling them with about 85 percent accuracy.


Got to be an improvement over what they have now.
This post was edited on 2/22/22 at 1:29 pm
Posted by Hoodie
Donaldsonville, LA
Member since Dec 2019
3592 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:29 pm to
Further reports state the robots are already claiming the ice-cream machine is broken.
Posted by ruzil
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2012
18128 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:30 pm to
How are you going to pull some drive thru worker out the window when yo fries are cold.
Posted by Gaggle
Member since Oct 2021
7286 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:31 pm to
Are the robots paid $15/hr?
Posted by Blutarsky
112th Congress
Member since Jan 2004
11726 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:31 pm to
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At the time, McDonald’s claimed the system could already handle about 80 percent of the orders that come its way, filling them with about 85 percent accuracy.


Can we get them in Popeyes?
Posted by OchoDedos
Republic of Texas
Member since Oct 2014
39135 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:32 pm to
McDonald's Buzz Lightyear milkshake machines never work, so this has a hole in the ground you throw money into written all over it.
Posted by Hoodie
Donaldsonville, LA
Member since Dec 2019
3592 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:34 pm to
I'd pay a few bucks extra to hear a digitized voice tell me to pull-up for the spicy.
Posted by Jjdoc
Cali
Member since Mar 2016
55371 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:34 pm to
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Further reports state the robots are already claiming the ice-cream machine is broken.



Posted by arcalades
USA
Member since Feb 2014
19276 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:36 pm to
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robots are already claiming the ice-cream machine is broken.
robots are smart enough to know they arent broken nor too lazy to clean them.
Posted by mmcgrath
Indianapolis
Member since Feb 2010
36925 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:39 pm to
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McDonald’s Partners With IBM to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI by Jjdoc
They have been trying to cheapen the drive through for 20 years. One time they redirected the microphone to an employee in India. Can you imagine the crappy microphone going long distance to some Indian guy to order your Big Mac?

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already handle about 80 percent of the orders that come its way, filling them with about 85 percent accuracy.
That kinda sucks. So they have to bounce 1 of 5 orders and only get 85% right on the orders they take? Yikes.
Posted by themunch
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Member since Jan 2007
71187 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:40 pm to
If your social score is not in the 'right' mind you will not be allowed a Big Mac.
Posted by Jack Carter
Member since Sep 2018
12200 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:40 pm to
Why aren't Democrat lawmakers attempting to ban automation like this? I thought they were fighting for the working man
This post was edited on 2/22/22 at 1:41 pm
Posted by Jack Daniel
Gold member
Member since Feb 2013
28442 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:40 pm to
The response to $15 min wage
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
72703 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:40 pm to
I'm pretty sure Wendy's at some point at some locations was using some kind of remote call center for order taking at the drive through, very pleasant voices and all the required upselling etc, and you pull around to the window and it is absolutely not the person you were just talking to at the menu board.
Posted by Bearcat90
The Land
Member since Nov 2021
2955 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:41 pm to
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McAutomation


I'm Loving It!
Posted by themunch
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71187 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:41 pm to
Robot cleaning? Who cleans the robots?
Posted by JackieTreehorn
Member since Sep 2013
34611 posts
Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:42 pm to
These robots better have sassy attitudes and speak in Ebonics.
Posted by themunch
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Posted on 2/22/22 at 1:42 pm to
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McAutomation



I'm Loving It!




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