This burger chain wants to replace cashiers with machines that analyze your face and know your order
A burger chain that uses robots to flip burgers is replacing cashiers with machines that know your order by analyzing your face.
CaliBurger, a burger chain with more than 40 locations globally, is now allowing customers to order using a kiosk that automatically recognizes the faces of certain loyal customers. The burger chain and the NEC Corporation of America, which made the machines' artificial intelligence technology, unveiled the self-ordering kiosks on Tuesday.
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Customers use the new kiosk by creating an loyalty account with CaliBurger, linking their faces to past orders. Then, when they return to the burger chain, they simply need to look into the machine's camera — and their orders will automatically pop up.
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Currently, CaliBurger is testing the kiosk at a single location in Pasadena, California. If all goes well, the chain plans to roll out the self-ordering, face-recognizing kiosk at all locations in 2018.
"Our goal for 2018 is to replace credit card swipes with face-based payments," Cali Group CEP John Miller said in a statement. "Facial recognition is part of our broader strategy to enable the restaurant and retail industries to provide the same kinds of benefits and conveniences in the built world that customers experience with retailers like Amazon in the digital world."
CaliBurger has made waves with its focus on using robots for jobs typically reserved for humans. The chain uses an robot to flip burgers in the kitchen and is developing infrastructure to replace food deliverers with autonomous vehicles.
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The robots are coming for your jobs!
But...but.......Trump promised me if I trusted him and gave him more money, then this wasn't supposed to happen!..../s
So....Trump didn't promise with tax cuts that there would be more jobs? Seems like this one particular corporation is basically calling Trump a liar! It seems like with this new automation they will be getting rid of at least 3 cashiers and only adding one technician......that's not a job increase! So tell me again how it's a flat out lie?
Oh! Also
Trump promised tax cuts. But to be fair, robots do work hard. So when they arrive they should be well paid-- and thier income taxed.
But I wonder-- will the new tax bill have a provision for tax cuts for robots?
There will be robot doctors by the end of the century. Just about every job can be replaced by a robot eventually.
Yes. And no one is addressing the elephant in the room:
Who will receive the added value created by the robots?
Everyone that uses them.
What about the person who's job that robot replaced?!....(oops!)
Yeah, the person who is currently making 8.00/hr but thanks to this robot will be making 0.00/hr!
How is the robot benefiting that person again?
And how is that going to stop their job from being automated?! How is that robot benefiting the person that job will be deleted because of this robot?......waiting
Depends. Is that robot a Democrat or a Republican?
Not surprising at all...The move to automation is in full swing and there is little that will stop it.
I hope not who wants to live like a caveman? I'm stoked about the technological advancements and the opportunities they create.
Do we want to stop it?
I don't think burger-flipping is something that we want to preserve.
The real subject is "How do we get accredit the added value from the robot to the employee who was displaced?"
I would suspect that people that are being replaced by robots are concerned, since the corporations are there to serve their shareholders they will keep moving forward with AI.
What about the people being replaced? I doubt if corporations are concerned about that at all, since every human being replaced adds to their bottom line.
The ''people'' in the end game are simply replaceable. I don't have an answer to the added value, except to say that I believe we are going to see more and more people replaced by robots. At some point it will become a crisis that has to be addressed. Are we ready for it, I don't think so.
Who care about those people. They can go work elsewhere if they have bothered to gain some skills. A well run and successful company, large or small, strives to keep their costs as low as possible, including labor. Sounds uncaring and mean, but that's life in the real world.
I wasn't speaking just about low skilled workers, many industries are, and will be experiencing skilled positions being replaced by robots and AI...
That is the wave of the future, the question is as the positions, both skilled and non skilled are replaced with robots and AI what will be the fall out and how will it be handled.
It won't be handled there will be higher unemployment, more poverty and homelessness and of course Soylent Green.
Spoken like a true conservative!........smdh
Funny.....you didn't think that way when it was coal jobs on the line!
Really?! Weren't you just the one ranting about a burger flipper with no education and skill set....but you acting like going down a coal mine and swinging a pick ax or shovel takes and undergraduate degree or 5 years of OJT to master!
And I guess you need extensive training to dig coal!....GTFOH!
Make Room! Make Room!
"Then maybe the person potentially putting themselves in an early grave should shut the fuck up, stop complaining and be happy to be making anything at all while they try to advance themselves!"
Fuck no.....maybe because I have triple digit IQ and can read above a 4th grade level! Oh! And I'm allergic to coal dust asphyxiation, bone shattering cave ins, and black lung disease!
I climbed (at the time and maybe still are) the tallest manmade structures in the southern hemisphere for years.
the only American in history to do so. my being there even caused a flap and court case with the unions...
was told I would never climb those towers again...
went on leave, came back and found the judge ruled in our/my favor..
and back up the towers I went.. good fun. tower zero was almost 1300ft and barely 12ft wide.
not many fry cooks would do that either...
doing that took no brains.. just balls the size of bowling balls.
some people live for a little danger
I've though about that for a long time. It seems obvious that more and more robots will be used-- and more and more people will therefore lose their jobs. And so far-- I really can't think of any solution to this problem.
That's why it isn't in the public spotlight. Politicians don't like problems with only bad solutions.
I see two paths:
- Dystopia, with a small caste of ultra-rich, and a great mass of proles,
- A sea-change in attitudes toward "property", with the arrival of collective ownership of means of production and distribution.
I'm not optimistic...
Has been since man invented/discovered the first tool.
I've though of that as well. The phenomenon of advances in technology replacing many workers has been going on for a long time. ...
Wow, what an exciting concept. Your face determines the one meal you are allowed to order. Ingenious.
So, when you walk up and it delivers the 'Garbage Plate' to you.........
I generally don't eat fast food. Don't be surprised in the interconnected world we live in, when your life insurance company quadruples your premium based on the footage of your face ordering 1,500 bacon double cheeseburgers from a machine brewing with ecoli.
Good the obese should pay more than the fit for health insurance.
Won't affect me either. But it is sad how our capitalist economy fosters the kind of deregulation that allows food manufacturers to market unhealthy food as being healthy. It's no better than the history of the tobacco industry.
Well, at least there's one thing we can be thankful for-- and that's that nothing like that happens in a Communist economy. For example Communism under Stalin-- the government always had the best interests of the workers at heart. (Which is why the Soviet Union was such a veritable paradise on earth).
There are capitalist economies with sensible regulatory policies in this respect. Ours is not. Communism has nothing to do with anything about my comment.
Lol that was my initial thought as well. However although not stated in the article I'm certain there's some sort of interrupt command you can use to change your normal order.
No, you can change your order, because it has "the automatic reject feature"
Hey! They got their tax cuts!.....this aint suppose to happen!..../s
I guess one advantage is that the robot won't spit on your hamburger.
Buzz, I don't know about that, have you ever watched "Futurama"?
No. Is it a TV program or movie shown in the past decade? I did see a movie about a rogue robot recently but can't remember the name.
It's a cartoon series on SyFy now that is about some guy that gets transported to the future were robots serve men and, have bad attitudes, the one that is featured most is named "Bender" and, he's about as rude as any human and, he can spit.
I guess it's not shown where I am. I was just thinking as well that they wouldn't piss into your Pepsi.
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it might leak oil on your french fries :)
Well, they're fried in oil anyway, aren't they? LOL
A burger chain that uses robots to flip burgers is replacing cashiers with machines that know your order by analyzing your face.
They weren't the first to use facial recognition:
Face ID on the iPhone X: Everything you need to know about Apple’s facial recognition
Apple introduced Face ID with the iPhone X, a new way to secure the phone.
he iPhone X uses Face ID, technology that unlocks the phone by using infrared and visible light scans to uniquely identify your face. It works in a variety of conditions and is extremely secure.
This brings up a lot of questions about Face ID, which is why we have this Face ID FAQ.
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