This coffee shop uses AI to measure the productivity of their employees and the time spent in the shop per customer. Welcome to capitalist innovation.
This coffee shop uses AI to measure the productivity of their employees and the time spent in the shop per customer. Welcome to capitalist innovation.
The future is a boot in our faces.
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.
If this is a chain, let us know the name so we can avoid it.
Could be some bias too some cups might be more complicated to make. Still what a horrible thing to use. Can I trick it by bringing "empty cups o coffee" to the front?
Most certainly will be ways to exploit it to make the numbers look good without improving quality of service (see fast food drive-thru workers asking customers to "pull up front" in order to stop the timer and artificially move the line while the customer continues to wait for food)
Yeah, this will actively discourage the most experienced baristas. It takes ~15 seconds to pour some drip coffee out of a carafe, but it takes ~90s for a good quality latte or cappuccino. If your least experienced employee is “6x more productive” then your most senior, that creates a hilariously bad incentive to fire people who know what they’re doing.
Not to mention that this disincentives cleaning.
Is it hard to implement AI like this for camera feed?
Real-time object classification is off the shelf technology now, so it's very easy to do this stuff.