Starbucks Abandons Borked AI Inventory Tool That Couldn't Count

Neywiny

This seems like a solved problem for those who care to solve it. Weigh product on intake, weigh on outflow or some other constant displacement pump solution. I've seen How It's Made and those factories have it down to a science without a guessbot at the wheel.

cityzen

so first claude f'd up pizza hut. Now it has f'd up starbucks. So much winning going on in this AI space lately.

qsxfthnkp2322

Maybe they can continue to pay people instead of robots.

nozzlegear

Wonder if this is why my Starbucks has been chronically out of stock on all their food items and popular drinks for several months.

ChrisArchitect

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/starbucks-scraps-ai-invento... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227487 )