About this episode
Photo by Daniel Hooper 🌊 on Unsplash
Published 1 September 2025
e527 with Andy, Michael and Michael – stories about AI restaurant experiences, historical LLMs, zoetropes and a whole lot more.
After Michael R gives his impressions of the PhotoDome app, the team starts things off with a story about the AI powering Taco Bell’s drive through point of sale experience. In the past few days, there have been a multitude of stories about the attempt to order 18,000 cups of water from the Yum Foods franchise. Check out the conversation in the podcast and the referenced articles in the show notes below. Continuing on the AI and restaurant theme, the team considers another article that reports on nonexistent specials that the restaurant has to deal with. While discussing the Wired article about which jobs AI is eliminating first, Michael M (mistakenly!) references a zoom seminar on the subject from Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artif
