e527 — AI Taco Trolls | Games At Work dot Biz

Taco truck with the phrase “In tacos we trust” written across the front of the truck — 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 Artificial Intelligence Digital Economy Lab. This seminar is scheduled for 29 September, so there’s still plenty of time to register for it at the link below! After touching on a couple of articles dealing with ChatGPT scanning conversations and instituting parental controls, the team switches to an AI use case that is very close to home for Andy’s educational background as a historian. Check out the GitHub link to TimeCapsuleLLM below and give it a whirl for yourself!

The team wraps up this episode with two interesting links – the trailer for the upcoming game The Expanse, and a fantastic piece of vinyl zoetrope technology from Atliens (please check out the link to see the visual for the alien abduction visuals – so cool!)

What is your favorite vinyl zoetrope? We’d love to share it with the Games at Work audience! Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz (our home for now) and let us know!