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01/20/2023
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By Belle Carter
AI-powered bot successfully requested refund from Wells Fargo using FAKE voice
Joshua Browder, the founder of DoNotPay, showed in a video shared on Twitter his newly launched artificial intelligence (AI) tool’s ability to handle customer service calls on behalf of users. Browder said using an AI-generated version of Browder’s own voice, it successfully requested a refund from Wells Fargo, a San Francisco-based multinational financial services company. […]
01/03/2023
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By Roy Green
First fully automated McDonald’s outlet creeps out customers
There are 13,266 McDonald’s stores in the United States as of this writing, but one in Fort Worth, Texas stands out. It is the first fully automated outlet of the giant fast-food chain. The customer can go in, order the food, get the meal and pay the bill without human interaction. Of course, the food […]
10/06/2022
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By Arsenio Toledo
ROBOCROPPERS: John Deere planning to replace farmers with fully automated farming vehicles by 2030
Agricultural machinery company John Deere is planning to manufacture nothing but fully automated farming vehicles by 2030. Jorge Heraud, vice president of automation and autonomy for John Deere, noted that he sees the company’s future as being a leader in the manufacturing of robotics and artificial intelligence-infused equipment alongside the tech giants of Silicon Valley. […]
08/12/2022
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By Ramon Tomey
Robots replacing shelf stockers in Japanese convenience store chain
Robots are set to replace human workers as shelf stockers in a Japanese convenience store chain. Convenience store company FamilyMart collaborated with Tokyo-based Telexistence to deploy these robots called TX Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm (TX SCARA) in 300 locations across the country. The robot arms designed to replenish drinks in refrigerators are now in mass […]
12/17/2021
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By Ethan Huff
If you are surrounding yourself with appliances, robots and gadgets that depend on the cloud, you are begging for disaster
The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is a powerful reminder about the detriments of “smart” technology, which is gone in an instant once the “cloud” goes down. One wonders how many thousands (millions?) of people out there were left without working doorbells, Roomba vacuum cleaners and even refrigerators that normally run on AWS but […]
09/13/2021
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By Virgilio Marin
Humans are no match for artificial intelligence – “It’s not even close,” says Nobel laureate
In an interview with The Guardian, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman opined that artificial intelligence (AI) would be the undisputed winner in the workplace battle between robots and humans. “Clearly AI is going to win [against human intelligence]. It’s not even close,” he told the paper. “How people are going to adjust to this is a fascinating problem.” Kahneman, […]
07/15/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Humanoid Japanese robot keeps getting fired for repeatedly malfunctioning and being incompetent
Pepper, a humanoid robot developed by Japanese technology investor SoftBank, keeps getting fired from its jobs. SoftBank unveiled Pepper, a child-sized robot, in 2014 and began selling it the next year. “Today might become a day that people 100, 200 or 300 years later would remember as a historic day,” said SoftBank chief executive officer […]
06/08/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
McDonald’s to test run AI-powered drive-thru windows that don’t need employees to take orders
In another move designed to shrink its workforce and save on labor expenses, McDonald’s is testing out its artificial intelligence-driven drive-thrus at 10 locations in Chicago. In these locations, workers will no longer be taking down the drive-thru orders of customers. A computer will do it instead, according to McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski. On Wednesday, June […]
03/07/2020
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By Franz Walker
The rise of the AI “boss” – who can track productivity and even FIRE you
As technology marches forward, more and more ways are being found to use automation to replace human labor. Now, it seems that even supervisors and managers aren’t safe. A Boston-based company has developed an AI that can eventually replace the need for office managers. Developed by a company called Cogito, the AI is designed to micro-manage call center workers. […]
08/20/2019
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By Edsel Cook
McDonald’s acquires machine-learning startup to develop personalized menus using A.I.
To boost flagging sales and compensate for reduced traffic at its stores, McDonald’s has turned to artificial intelligence. The icon of the American fast food industry acquired an Israeli tech startup and tasked it with developing A.I.-powered software that will create personalized menus for customers on the fly. McDonald’s announced its purchase of Dynamic Yield, […]
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