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airdi@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Say goodbye to self-serve soft drinks at McDonald's

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Say goodbye to self-serve soft drinks at McDonald's

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airdi@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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McDonald's owner-operators say food safety and theft prevention contributed to the move to eliminate self-serve soda fountains in US dining rooms.
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    My guess is this is a small move in a long term strategy to fully automate their restaurants. Everything needing a human will be re-worked to not need human labor or will be eliminated.

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      I’ve been saying this for years now.

      Within 20-30 years, most things as we know it will be automated.

      • White Castle is buying 100 robots that can flip burgers and man fry stations.

      • Amazon has shown off a cashierless grocery store.

      • Wal-Mart is deploying tech to identify when stock on a shelf is low and was looking at robot stockers.

      • Waymo, Uber, etc. are working good progress on self-driving taxis.

      • Domino’s has a pizza delivery robot they’re working on.

      • Amazon is deploying its automatic delivery drones.

      • Russia is actively using self-driving semi trucks in Siberia, and there are multiple startups working on the problem elsewhere.

      • Journalists are slowly being replaced by AI.

      • Both WGA and SAG-AFTRA are striking because of the threat that AI will take their jobs in the near term.

      • There was that dumb AI lawyer thing a little bit ago.

      • Blizzard is replacing concept artists with AI image generation.

      And so on.

      The point isn’t that the tech is good now - it isn’t. Wal-Mart didn’t keep their stocking robots. The AI lawyer got in a tremendous amount of legal trouble. AI journalism has been rolled back after quality issues.

      But do you think the technology will stay this bad?

      Like, remember what phones were like in 2003? People still had landlines. The closest thing to a smartphone was a Blackberry (which came out in 2002). 3G networks were brand-new (and spotty). None of it was very good, yet they got better and better and now here we are 20 years later where smartphones are an indispensable part of daily life for most people.

      What will automation look like in 2043? 2053? That’s within our lifetime. What kind of jobs will today’s kindergartners have available to them when they reach their 20s and 30s?

      There is nothing to indicate that automation will always be bad forever. There is money to be saved by cutting out the human element and replacing them with robots. It’s looking more and more reasonable to invest in R&D that eliminates human jobs, in every industry - from Uber and DoorDash drivers to semi drivers to tutors to artists to cashiers. It’s coming, and we have to think about how we’re going to support all the people that won’t have a job anymore.

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      You my friend just have a crystal ball. ( I do really mean I believe your correct)

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      How does this remove human labor? In a traditional fast food restaurant human labor will always be needed to wipe the tables for example also. If you mean not a traditional restaurant but instead becoming basically a store sized vending machine, that’s possible, but that would be such a different product that they wouldn’t already be making those changes in their existing stores.

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