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Re:There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence by stretchwithme on Saturday October 14, 2017 @12:39PM (#15472944)
It won't be a single machine. It will be multiple systems. And it's not that far away. Probably only 15 years.

And it will be a great boon. Quality of meals will go up and costs will go down. The restaurant market will shrink but not completely disappear.

But McDonald's will certainly die, as there'll be no need to sacrifice quality and nutrition to get speed and convenience. In fact, a table at McDonald's will be an inconvenient booth.

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Re:There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence by timthelion on Saturday October 14, 2017 @02:01PM (#15473333)
McDonalds is that machine. All you need is to make the trucks that distribute the ingredients self driving and you have it.
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Re:There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence by stretchwithme on Saturday October 14, 2017 @07:13PM (#15474852)
It's not the machine I was describing. It's not a machine but a group of people. And it's certainly not elevating quality or nutrition. It doesn't produce food I'd want to serve to my nieces on a regular basis or that I'd want them know about.
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