the same AI that could be used to run the coffee shop efficiently and distribute resources along with our UBI.

but we somehow let a select group of sociopathic humans run the world instead. oh well. we kinda have ourselves to blame. we outnumber the sociopaths, afterall.

I was in an AI/ML training program last year, and there were a few hospital execs there too.

They were absolutely giddy about being able to use AI to deny unprofitable medical care. It was sickening.

Not terrible if they intend on using this data to improve their services, but I have a feeling they're going to use it to tell customers to gtfo after a certain amount of time and fire employees who don't hit quotas. Neither of these improve their services, but they will improve short term profits.

Optimization of assembly lines and critique about it is pretty old by now.

I read somewhere how the japanese tried to optimize assembly lines and have a big board where everywhere there is a work stoppage a red light would go off so you could isolate and see the patterns. The ideal was that red lights would go on and off everywhere all the time, so that all workers are working at the edge of capacity. If they are not going home totally stressed out you're doing it wrong! /s

Be careful when you gamify a job but not on the metrics you really care about.

Stacking employees by drinks touched per hour will definitely get you more drinks, but maybe at the expense of returning customers, or overall sales, or satisfaction.

Man we have already been starting to get in deep with companies using unrealistic efficiency models for their employees based on computer models that assume a lot about how much each human behind the data point can handle. Use of facial and basic AI recognition is gonna make a lot of work feel like there is impossible standards unless their bosses can back away from max efficiency, which we know is practically impossible if the thought of profits are on the line.

Data on how long customers are staying and in which seats could be nice though just for reorganizing the seating to adjust that though.

Somehow it always feels like bosses use data to see how much more they can squeeze out of employees rather than how to make the space more enjoyable. Easy to interact with.

So fucking sick of the AI circlejerk.

Wait you guys thought the capitalists weren't going to use AI?

Their union will put a stop to it, right? Right guys??

Also why are there four servers? Most I've seen at coffee shops are two and maybe some in the back to prepare sandwiches and so on