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[–] ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 72 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

But despite some of the viral glitches facing Taco Bell, it says two million orders have been successfully processed using the voice AI since its introduction.

how much you wanna bet they're counting the orders where the drive thru worker had to step in and save the floundering algorithm who could not in fact understand basic speech, or even the purpose of a conversation, as orders "successfully processed" using AI

[–] Cybersec@piefed.social 8 points 4 hours ago

If money came in the window in exchange for cheap ass beans and tortillas going out the window it’s a win in their books.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 36 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Do you really think they were smart enough to annotate their chat logs to track failures?

They didn’t even get basic input validation.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why would they look at chat logs when they can simply ask the chat bot how successful it was?

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Two million successful orders!

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 46 minutes ago

Heard one guy alone had 18000 orders successfully fullfilled

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago

Not to mention when people change their orders from the basics.

"No onions, I'm allergic."

"Slathering onion juice on everything, got it."

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I would definitely bet against that because the article states they're not putting any AI in the drive through going forward.

[–] httperror418@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Ryan started the fire (the office US online order system feels exactly like what you describe)