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I spend most of my available neurons thinking about ways AI can be used to manipulate us (for science, of course) Fast Food surge pricing has now made it to that list.
This reminds me of a Seinfeld episode where they're waiting at a Chinese restaurant to be seated, and Elaine, who is starving, says that they shouldn't seat people on a fir…
I spend most of my available neurons thinking about ways AI can be used to manipulate us (for science, of course) Fast Food surge pricing has now made it to that list.
This reminds me of a Seinfeld episode where they're waiting at a Chinese restaurant to be seated, and Elaine, who is starving, says that they shouldn't seat people on a first come first served basis, but based on a "whoever is hungrier" scale.
I can very easily envision Uber food adding a "how hungry are you" scale. Anything to make an extra buck.
I love that episode! I don't know if it's the first one I saw, but it's the one that made me fall in love with Seinfeld. Not much of a story (in fact, the network hated it), but man oh man does that one speak to our every day life experiences. As for your point about Uber, I think they already have something like that, but it's just a "rush delivery" for an extra buck or two. Pretty sure that extra money doesn't go to the driver, though. As for your research, someone in the comments pointed out that fast food apps already pitch all kinds of deals, so I'm sure there's a plan to optimize that stuff with AI. But in the case of Wendy's I sorta think the CEO was just trying to assure Wall Street that they had an AI plan (whatever that is) and then the press and the internet took that ball and ran with it.