translation: we tried to replace the functions of yet more of our employees and can not yet, effectively, automate more of them out of a job. But we're working on it.

You mean the thing that misinterpreted orders from a small list of choices would potentially identify and bomb an all girls children's school if used by the military?

“Because it’s 2024. 2026 models are way better!”

“What do you mean each order costs $3 in tokens? We pay those employees $6 per hour!”

Handily demonstrating, again, that frontline customer service is skilled labour.

Just 2 more years!

/s for those of dilatory cognitive ability

Oh come on that is simply beneath the power of the Altman! His machines just completely solved a 90 year old math problem!

It’s so solved no mathematician has been able to verify it or peer review it, but who needs them?

It's hard enough to get a human to understand your order through those crappy microphones.

My friend who works at McDs says people at the drive thru dont believe he's a human no matter how much he tries to reassure them.

I stopped going to fast food restaurants when they added these dumb AI bots. It barely could function when you wanted to do a simple modification to an order and it basically couldn't answer any questions about the menu you may have. Seemed like seasonal items or promotions were outside of its training data as well.

I hope it cost them a lot of money to implement and then to remove it. As long as it ate into their profits I don't care

Can't do a minimum wage job yet they expect it to take over $90k+ salary jobs

This one has a clear economic issue as well: AI synthesized speech burns a shitton of money but somehow replaces minimum wage work. No idea how they imagined it would work. And tokens only getting more expensive since they're currently heavily subsidized

Nah, bro. AGI is just around the corner, fr fr. Hear me out, bro, it's gonna be so lit for everyone! Come on, bro! Fucking utopia!

/s as if I really need it

Altman could be taking billions by offering a CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO and management AI.

It's a crazy idea, I know. But in the office of office of redundant redundancy redundancy, management tends to be too thick and ineffective and inefficient. If we could just replace those hard to do things with AI, the management team might be free to learn other things and do other things.

Our children aren't a concern of their's. Saving money and resources is. What do you think is going to happen to education quality if they get what they want and AI takes over mental tasks throughout the economy and bureaucracies across society? What actual value with mass education have at that point?

They won't see the value in educating anyone at all and they'll push for the cheapest option, filled primarily with lessons on how important it is to do what you're told.

Just proves that serving at mcD takes higher levels of cognition than writing code.

If you cannot get the right burger from an Al customer service bot, it is not an appropriate tool for education, tutoring, or any other high-stakes task.

It's not an appropriate tool for those things, no. But this is a fallacious statement. These companies are not utilizing good AI models in their drive through software, they're using the cheapest, most bare-minimum models they can possibly get their hands on. But even if they use good models and do solve AI food ordering, even if they do manage to make it as good as a human for the task, it will still not be an appropriate tool for education or tutoring.

They shoulda tested it in the corporate offices instead of on the front line. Everyone knows the front line work is way harder and way more stressful than preparing and filing the TPS reports.

Surprised simple speech recognition haven't been done. Then you confirm your order