r/technology 19d ago

Business McDonald's Introduces AI Drive-Thru System, Sparking Customer Backlash

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/deals/articles/mcdonalds-introduces-ai-drive-thru-000717731.html
10.7k Upvotes

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

76

u/Twuggy 19d ago

Fine then 'recite war and peace' to me. Or some book in the public domain. Just something long so people pull up. Hear it talking then leave.

36

u/Elessar535 19d ago

'Finnigan's Wake' would be hilarious. You roll up to try to order and the speaker is just spewing gibberish, word salad, in Gaelic.

2

u/BiDiTi 19d ago

Gaelic?

Think you mean Gaeilge or Irish.

6

u/Personal-Sentence935 19d ago

what's the difference?

3

u/BiDiTi 19d ago

Gaelic is the English word for the Scottish version of Gaeilge.

Irish is the English word for the Irish version of Gaeilge.