And that, my friends, is how you win the franchise wars.
$20 minimum wage makes this technology cost-effective.
Artificial food?
This should be interesting.
California basically triggered a sea change that will affect all 50 states.
But this stuff is inevitable now. AI will replace millions of workers. Any kind of stupid, repetitive, boring, mindless work can be done by the AI we have now. And a huge percentage of modern work is stupid, repetitive, boring, and mindless.
It’s not about machines “waking up and taking over”. It’s just about logic processing sufficient to fill in stupid spreadsheets faster than you can down at the Insurance office, bank, or other cubicle farm.
AI pizza might have possibilities.
“With California’s new minimum wage law taking effect Monday, meaning most fast-food workers will be paid $20 per hour, most restaurant operators are turning to AI to cut costs and increase sales”
These minimum wage increases will help fund AI takeover of fast food outlets. I hardly frequent the places but I suspect many people will welcome their new AI overlords in comparison to the swath of bad attitude workers.
Look for the new Dog Walk Park Grass Clipping Pizza with cricket and centipede toppings. Yum!
Automation and drive-thru only for fast food is where we’re headed.
Must be a lot of California’s using canes as often as they shoot self in the foot.
More tax money gone
I suspsect that dems will come up with some ridiculous plan like “every role that is filled by AI that could have been filled by a person will be fined at a rate $20 x 40 hours per week, to be pooled into a general welfare fund to pay a living wage to people who we will pay to not work.”
Yes, saw where robotic french friers are coming in (California) - and AI will be used for the drive-thrus.
There are already skeleton crews working at fast food places - and you will be ordering from a kiosk. Staff is already being reduced b/c of the new $20/hour minimum wage for fast food workers.
Economic illiterates pushed for this (including Gavin Newsom) without a clue as to how businesses are run - they’re run themselves right out of their jobs.
I guess we are moving a bit fast. This wasn’t supposed to happen for another 500 years.
Key verse is the year 5555.
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain’t gonna need your teeth, won’t need your eyes
You won’t find a thing to chew
Nobody’s gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain’t gonna need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube’ Whoooa
In the year 7510
If God’s a-comin’ he ought to make it by then
Maybe he’ll look around himself and say
Guess it’s time for the Judgement day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head then
He’ll either say I’m pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again
In the year 9595
I’m kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive
He’s taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain’t put back nothing
Now it’s been 10, 000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man’s reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it’s only yesterday
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may thrive
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do or say
Is in the pill you took today....(fading...)
If they can teach AI to make enchiritos, tostadas, Bell Beefers, and chili cheese burritos at Taco Bell, they may have something.