🤖🧋Wendy's is working with Google to replace order-taking humans with an AI Chatbot. The trial will be at one store in the chain's home state of Ohio. Engineers are teaching the language model to understand customers' orders even when they don't follow the menu. For example, a customer who asks the AI for a "milkshake" needs to get a Frosty, or things may get ugly.
👩⚕️👎Burgers are one thing... Public health experts are calling to pump the brakes on AI development until regulations are in place. While these technologies could revolutionize diagnosis speed and accuracy, examples already exist of "GPT MD" missing details that could have led to patient death.
The health professionals go on to say a lack of regulation could lead to the intentional use of lethal weapons or a mass mental health crisis if AI displaces large numbers of workers.
🏖️Maybe wide scale unemployment ain't so bad? Leading artificial intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel spoke at Rio de Janeiro's Web Summit about the impact AI could have on the job market in the coming years. He says AI could replace 80% of jobs within a few years but isn't a threat because "People can find better things to do with their life than work for a living... Pretty much every job involving paperwork should be automatable."
Which worked for the folks in Star Trek, but mathematically and historically, don't feel quite right.