AI not affecting job market much so far, New York Fed says

Re:AI not affecting job market much so far, New York Fed says by MontyCarloHall on Thursday September 04, 2025 @07:36PM (#45133456)

Current tech is pretty dang close. I gave the order to ChatGPT and it parsed it almost perfectly [0], even handling the ambiguity about what happens if you add a combo to an order that already includes several fries à la carte. The only thing it missed is that I didn't actually order the combo (but merely want to know how much the upgrade is), but I'm sure some fine-tuning could solve that. (Come to think of it, a fast food restaurant would consider this implicit upsell as a feature.)

The main challenge AI would face is people who come by at 3 AM drunk and stoned, indecisively slurring through their order, but I imagine there'd be a system to redirect these edge cases to an actual human.

[0] https://chatgpt.com/share/68ba2233-9f48-8011-905a-c69cc5e91b...

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Re:AI not affecting job market much so far, New York Fed says by ryoshu on Thursday September 04, 2025 @08:39PM (#45133835)

Pretty dang close isn't the same as accurate for an exchange of time and money. Voice->text, with a noisy background, is a particularly hard problem. Especially with hardware not designed to limit background noise. Try it. Whisper is still the leading speech->text model in our tests, but add noise reduction, echo, diarization, etc. It's a hard problem.

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Re:AI not affecting job market much so far, New York Fed says by fluoridation on Thursday September 04, 2025 @08:57PM (#45133950)

>Come to think of it, a fast food restaurant would consider this implicit upsell as a feature.

Yeah, just what every restaurant manager wants: to deal with customers who paid more for things they didn't order.

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