Automation: Company lays off 1,000 staff, saying no longer needed due to AI
Company says AI enables them to increase productivity, needs fewer workers, lays off about 1,000.
Automation: Fully autonomous restaurant opening in California
Predictably, the first fully automated restaurant to open in California.
Automation: Starbucks to increase use of automation
Starbucks will improve efficiency by adding more automation.
Automation: Cost of running fast food restaurants
The cost of running fast food restaurants is becoming very expensive, for many reasons. The result will be increased use of automation and customer “DIY” systems like app and kiosk…
Automation: Multiple restaurants working to add robots
Automation continues to be added to many restaurants, which will lead to a reduction in head count.
Business: “Made in America”
Not the first to do this, but here’s an uplifting story on manufacturing: The hidden beauty inside American factories (cnn.com)
Automation: “Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of AI”
Writer suggests Luddites should have sought tax on machine made fabric. How about a tax on words written on word processors?
Automation, Business: McDonald’s getting rid of DIY soda stations
McDonald's will gradually phase out DIY soda filling - but not for the reasons you might be thinking...
AI, Part 1: Bing Chat’s copyright infringement?
Bing Chat's generative AI does not even pretend to be original. Here, it has plagiarized verbatim, word for word, from a Lonely Planet guide book.
AI: IBM study on AI job impacts
IBM study says 40% of global workforce will need to adopt AI skills or be replaced by workers who know AI.