What worries me is that companies are using “the AI fucked up” as an excuse and just… not fixing the problem. They’re using it as an accountability shield.
AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
Submitted 4 hours ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-supply-chain-groceries
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Goatboy@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
ignirtoq@feddit.online 2 hours ago
The result of all this may be catastrophic. Should a worst-case scenario ever occur — a cyberattack, a natural disaster, an internet outage — there may be no human workers left with the skills that once kept food on the shelves.
Very nerdy of me, but this reminds me of a Stargate SG-1 episode “the Sentinel.” The team travels to a planet whose civilization relies on fully automated technology. The people don’t have to operate or maintain it (normally), so their society has completely forgotten how. In the episode, one set of antagonists comes in and sabotages their defense system, and another set sees the opportunity and invades. The protagonists have to then figure out the defense system and fix it.
We don’t live in a TV series. There aren’t benevolent outsiders who will swoop down and save our systems in the nick of time when they break down. We’re headed in a bad direction.
aviationeast@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I prefer the one where Teal’c drinks a fresh pot of hot coffee straighten from the pot.
Also had a civilization that needed robots to help maintain everything.
treadful@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I prefer the Star Trek TNG episode where they kidnap a dozen children from the Enterprise.
cogman@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Hey, can we stop calling everything with a computer “AI”? Order management systems have been a thing long before LLMs were invented (I’ve worked on one). This was perhaps one of the first applications of computing. Humans hand writing an order form in a major grocery store hasn’t been a thing since like the 80s.
Also, I’m like 80% sure this article was barfed out by an LLM. The em-dashes be everywhere.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
😹 How are we concerned with statistical systems being vulnerable (which is shitty, sure) when they don’t even lead to productivity increases, that is they cannot even do the jobs they’re made to do? Get real. What a clownshow
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Yeah this is what bugs me.
There are no trade off, there are only disadvantages.
It’s like a drug that not only it’s bad for you, it’s also not fun to do.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
It’s like a drug that not only it’s bad for you, it’s also not fun to do.
Cigarettes after a week?
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
No productivity increase? What? For waiters maybe.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
“AIs” can’t even operate vending machines, let alone recognize handwriting reliably or translate text. I know a few people that work in archives with (pre-)medieval manuscripts and I myself have bitten my teeth out with Google Translate™ and DeepL™. That’s how I know. There was a study done on that. You could make a simple vending machine that collects usage statistics and sends reports via radio that just works using a few scripts. Emphasis on “works”.
My my my
Linktank@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
What are you? An investor?
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
There’s nothing in this article about problems with AI specifically.
XLE@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Don’t worry guys, AI will revolutionize everything. You won’t have to think at all!
Except AI is trash at doing what it’s advertised to do, it makes everybody dumber, and its shills will blame you once it inevitably mucks everything up.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
“You’re prompting it wrong”
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Isn’t it incredible that “AI” is sold as a product that is ‘PhD level smart’ (lol), but if it doesn’t do the straightforward thing you asked of it then it’s your fault.
They don’t oficie instructions for it because they can’t provide instructions; what works on one version might not work next week. But it’s still your fault if it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to.
Are you excited yet??
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Last year McDonalds tried a test of replacing human drive thru workers with an AI running the speaker board. It was shut down after only 3 weeks.
My favorite bit was a guy trying to order a big mac meal large with a coke.
What the AI heard, was 81,000 bottles of Dasani water. Then asked “Is this correct?” To which the guy responded “81,000 bottles of fucking water???”
To which the AI added a big mac meal medium with a water. Then asked if his updated order was correct. He just drove off.
ClownStatue@piefed.social 1 hour ago
I was at a Bojangles earlier this year and they had an AI doing their drive thru. I was trying to order a meal, but didn’t want a drink. That confused the heck out of the AI. It kept trying to force a drink in me. Gave up and walked into the store. Guy behind the counter was smiling and said something like, “we can hear what you’re saying to it. Next time just pull around. We got you.”
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
How do we know that actually happened? Is there a video? Who recorded it?
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
If AI is “responsible” for the well-being of humans…DEAD humans can’t get sick. DEAD humans don’t have to pay rent. DEAD humans stay dead.
The logic is solid.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
i mean i guess total collapse is a form of revolution
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The final frontier