McDonald's Acquires AI Firm To Replace Human Workers Top Business Tech

Another sector has been added to automation's hit-list. This time it's fast food, as McDonald's adds Apprente to its McD Tech Labs roster. McDonald's has announced plans to replace human workers with artificial intelligence-driven voice technology in it's US drive-thru stores. The fast-food giant announced Tuesday that it had acquired Apprente, a company pioneering speech recognition AI, which creates "voice-based platforms for complex, multilingual, multi-accent and multi-item conversational ordering." This is their third major acquisition of a technology company this year.