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• AI flies a fighter jet for 17 hours

• McDonald’s AI rollout is going poorly

• It turns out Bing made mistakes too

• OtterPilot might be the cutest name for an AI tool—ever

Highway to the Singularity Zone!

Lockheed Martin let everyone in on the secret: VISTA flew for 17 hours in December last year. The moment marks the first time AI flew a tactical aircraft unassisted.

VISTA stands for Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft. According to the press release, the test marks a huge breakthrough and is the biggest thing in fighter jets since Top Gun: Maverick came out.

Isn’t AI already in Airplanes?

We’ve seen plenty of examples and use cases for AI in jets and planes of all types. A human cannot fly a modern military jet without a computer assisting the pilot.

Instead, like a few other things in life, this flight matters more because of how long it lasted. 

17 hours of flight means they had to refuel the VISTA X-62. If they could refuel it without a human pilot helping, that’s impressive. I say “if” because no one knows all the details about what “breakthroughs” happened here.

We didn’t even know what specific AI tech was used during the test. They’ll keep that close to the chest, but context clues tell us this is a step up from current models.

I don’t see them going full uncrewed soon, but military developments in AI are always noteworthy, given the implications. 

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No McDonald’s, I Didn’t Want Fries with That

Four years ago, the golden arches bought a company called Apprente. The AI company can understand speech and would be a perfect way to automate drive-thru kiosks.

Then sh*t hit the fan. 

TikTok videos are starting to pour in from Chicago, where the tech is being tested for rollout. Customers needed help to get the AI to stop adding ketchup packets and 9 sweet teas to their simple orders.

One guy kept asking for Mountain Dew and getting a medium Diet Coke. But that one makes sense.

McDonald’s doesn’t serve Mountain Dew, my guy—poor drive-thru bot.

Corporate was Expecting 95% Accuracy

Reports say the kiosks are only around 80% accurate. In AI terms, that’s not horrible, but nowhere near ready for a massive rollout. 

Yet, bots already handle a lot of fast-food interactions. We hear voice recordings at most drive-thrus, and plenty of other restaurants are testing their own AI ordering systems.

Still, the world is not ready for this level of public interaction.

We still struggle to get our prompts right with ChatGPT. You need to speak to AI in a way that’s different from what we do with humans, and that behavior needs to change over time.

Till then, bring on the ketchup packets.

Quick Nuggets

🛠️ GenAI in news. Here are the tools Sifted uses in their office

💅 Bing ain’t perfect, and you should know they make mistakes

🪨 OtterPilot is the newest tool from Otter’s team that’s coming soon

🔞 An AI nightmare for women is growing in concern. Deepfakes are only becoming more problematic

🍣 Sushi Terrorism is set to become a thing of the past thanks to AI cameras

💝 Valentine’s Day meant a ton of articles like this on ChatGPT poems and cards

🚘 Self-Driving cars are facing significant backlash 

♾️ Infinity Quizzes launched by BuzzFeed are personal stories powered by OpenAI

🦸 Sam Altman clickbait about how he thinks ChatGPT is a horrible product, thanks BI…

5️⃣ Top 5 AI cryptocurrencies to follow in 2023

🏁 Ricky Bobby 🤝 AI and not knowing what to do with hands

💯 1 million people are signed up to use New Bing

🎤 Voiceover Artists claim their voices are being used without their consent by AI

🩺 Dr. ChatGPT, the tool was able to pass Step 1 of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam

🏃‍♂️ Don’t rush to invest in AI: a message from Vint Cerf

🚕 Zoox Amazon’s Robotaxi drove on public roads in California for the first time

✏️ Writer announced their enterprise offering and unique way of deploying customer models

👻 Jasper announced their own business offering at GenAI, their customer conference that happened yesterday

🤖 Bing Chat found out Marvin von Hagen was snitching and did not appear pleased by the discovery

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