what continues to be absolutely fucking hilarious about this is that this sort of thing already fucking exists in mainland china, in the form of a boxshop you walk into where everything is tagged with RFID stickers. slap the basket into location, pay with phone, leave. and it exists based on 2010+ technology, that’s fairly reliable.
(minor note: I haven’t seen this in person but I’ve seen coverage of it, and I’ve worked with all the actual constituent technologies so I’m quite aware of how real this is and how well it can work, barring all the fuzzy in-practice biz-rule shit that inevitably has to be handled and solved (such as all real-world systems))
I’ve gotten a few of these questions at work. Non tech workers will throw ideas such as “random math drill powered by AI” or even “search powered by AI”. These things are already solved following a traditional approach. In the end they add “powered AI” in the hopes the estimate will be lower I think.
ah yes because the method of shopping with a basket and things being underneath other things is just completely not a thing that’ll happen, and the shitty implementation would always have perfect visibility on every single item and line of movement. no camera obstructions could ever happen, no light problems could ever come to the fore! perfect visual analysis! just like how we already have self-driving cars purely on optical sensors!
I’m simply saying what the goal was, it was not to just make an automated store where you go and scan your own shit. But your are correct, they did not manage to solve for all of it in time.
what continues to be absolutely fucking hilarious about this is that this sort of thing already fucking exists in mainland china, in the form of a boxshop you walk into where everything is tagged with RFID stickers. slap the basket into location, pay with phone, leave. and it exists based on 2010+ technology, that’s fairly reliable.
(minor note: I haven’t seen this in person but I’ve seen coverage of it, and I’ve worked with all the actual constituent technologies so I’m quite aware of how real this is and how well it can work, barring all the fuzzy in-practice biz-rule shit that inevitably has to be handled and solved (such as all real-world systems))
I’ve gotten a few of these questions at work. Non tech workers will throw ideas such as “random math drill powered by AI” or even “search powered by AI”. These things are already solved following a traditional approach. In the end they add “powered AI” in the hopes the estimate will be lower I think.
Decathlon also does this in a bunch of locations in Europe.
nice, wasn’t aware of that having ground presence there
Well it’s from china so it must be evil and its publicity must be minimised /s
The thing was that your didn’t need to tag everything. The ai would just kinda see it.
ah yes because the method of shopping with a basket and things being underneath other things is just completely not a thing that’ll happen, and the shitty implementation would always have perfect visibility on every single item and line of movement. no camera obstructions could ever happen, no light problems could ever come to the fore! perfect visual analysis! just like how we already have self-driving cars purely on optical sensors!
(your comment is bullshit, go learn some shit)
[e: edit last to minus ad hominem]
I’m simply saying what the goal was, it was not to just make an automated store where you go and scan your own shit. But your are correct, they did not manage to solve for all of it in time.