Comment by kypro
4 days ago
I'll add to this...
The "funky" websites of the past were mostly a result of tech immaturity and a lack of profit motive.
Businesses have been able to easily install templates like this for at least a decade. They don't because stuff like this looks cool but isn't very functional.
AI isn't going to make your local restaurant have a funky website, it's just going to make everyone who use to work directly and indirectly for that company unemployable. And even the local restaurant will close down because they can't compete with the multi-national competitor that has automated their kitchen with AI.
I agree with most of your comment with one exception: It will never be economically viable to replace kitchen staff with AI.
> It will never be economically viable to replace kitchen staff with AI
Can you expand? Specifically what is it about humans that AI and robotics could not replace?
I think they're saying the answer is: Price.
Over here in AgTech land, we focus hard on fully-loaded dollars/acre. For kitchen staff, the metric's probably going to be dollars/hamburger, and a human can sure make a lot of hamburgers for $12/hour.
You might be able to make some kind of (AI + robotics) thing that can replace that human, but at $12/hr that human costs $1,920/month + tax. If you can make a AI+robotics unit for $24k that works perfectly for a year, you break even; if you have a single $1000 service call because it's acting up, you've lost the budget.
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