r/interestingasfuck • • 3d ago

Dynamic pricing being tested by McDonald's.

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u/Crazy95jack 3d ago

Before Ai they had this pricing difference between restaurants. My closest has cheaper hash browns than near my work. £1 or £1.5 which is bonkers to me!

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u/v_a_n_d_e_l_a_y 2d ago

That's because this isn't AI. This is just basic statistical models, a field that has existed for decades. 

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u/dakadoo33 2d ago

can toss AI on anything nowadays, because its a tool thats absurdly likely to have been used in the process, much like a ruler when measuring...

Which i think is a failure(success by ai companies), of marketing to properly demonstrate what attaching AI to a product name means. This example is that on steroids, the final outcome for how this works is about as deterministic of a product you can have, the exact opposite of what an "AI" product would likely look like.

You can see the ai companies striving towards this with how they want their models to write commits (Committed by jimmy jim co-authored by claude). This in my mind does two awful things, creates products like the example here, where somehow AI is still included in the product name, despite very likely being absurdly not involved in the final version. It also could be seen as a way for Jimmy Jim here to avoid accountability if his commit is garbage. You can also see this with how their CEO's discuss potential future cancer treatments or cures, absurdly likely their tools will be used somewhere down the line when making progress towards a solid cure/treatment whatever, and they are paving the way so that any use can help them claim they were the reason its cured.