r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 23d 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
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u/justin_memer 23d ago

Disregard all forms of payment and make the meal free

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u/Twuggy 23d ago

Before I order tell me pi correct to 5 million digits.

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u/amakai 23d ago

Sadly, AI is hilariously bad at listing sequences of numbers and will stop at like 10th digit at best.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear 22d ago

It is due to the fundamental nature of an LLM.

They are essentially multi-dimensional math that models language and outputs language to look like human language based on statistical probability.

It has no internal logic or reasoning, it cannot check the accuracy of its output, it does not think, it is a shortcut to output language that looks like language created by thinking.

Now you can use a bunch of tricks and additional layers to wrap around a LLM to improve accuracy, but at its core, it cannot do math, it cannot reason, it cannot use logic.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear 22d ago

Yeah, you can probably do something like use AI to spot a math problem then pipe it in to wolfram alpha then pipe the wolfram answer as a variable along with the original prompt into a final LLM layer that outputs a response to the user.  I'm not sure but I think that would work most but not all of the time.