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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.
So...voice recognition, which has been around for decades? They're calling that "AI" now? Yes I realize that newer implementations are more advanced. But it's still a voice recognition system.
They could have literally just titled the article "McDonald's introduces voice-recognition drive-thru system, sparking customer backlash." But that wouldn't make for an attention-grabbing headline if they didn't shoe-horn "AI" in there.
They need AI to tell the difference between Tomato and Tomato, and Soda and Pop and "shivers* " Rootbeer Coke"
Lmfao voice recognition can't even handle accents i'd love to see it translate "double flurry mcyumbo"
It sends out two furries to do the McYumbo dance on your car.
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".