cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16955080
LLMs certainly hold potential, but as we’ve seen time and time again in tech over the last fifteen years, the hype and greed of unethical pitchmen has gotten way out ahead of the actual locomotive. A lot of people in “tech” are interested in money, not tech. And they’re increasingly making decisions based on how to drum up investment bucks, get press attention and bump stock, not on actually improving anything.
The result has been a ridiculous parade of rushed “AI” implementations that are focused more on cutting corners, undermining labor, or drumming up sexy headlines than improving lives. The resulting hype cycle isn’t just building unrealistic expectations and tarnishing brands, it’s often distracting many tech companies from foundational reality and more practical, meaningful ideas.
Bacon on ice cream is a feature, not a bug
haven’t read the article, but Burger King had bacon on ice cream for a while back in 2012. Didn’t work for me, but others liked it.
Same with Denny’s. I liked it.
Came here to see if I was insane. I never saw the commercial so I always thought the customer was making a stupid joke.
I’m still unclear what McDonald’s was trying to use the LLM for?
McDonald’s is the latest company to learn this lesson the hard way as well, after its partnership with IBM resulted in “AI” powered drive-through systems that were giving patrons preposterous numbers of chicken nuggets and unwanted butter patties, or putting bacon on ice cream
Were they trying to do some sort of speech recognition with the Drive-Thru microphones?
Of course they won’t give up. What better way to put thousands of people out of jobs for profit.
