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They've created a home internet-enabled camera, and decided to market it as... an AI fashion critic?
by xd1936 10y ago
They've created a home internet-enabled camera, and decided to market it as... an AI fashion critic?
- taternuts 10y agoOn first glance I'm not sure if it's stupid or really smart. I guess it depends on how well it works among other things.
- trey-jones 10y agoI'm 95% confident that I have no use for it and expect complete failure, therefore it will sell and cement Amazon as the #1 player in machine learning.
- Thriptic 10y agoI was fairly skeptical as well, but then I showed this to my friend and she thought it was a great product idea (albeit potentially overpriced). Apparently a lot of people like to take fit pictures and also log outfit combinations which work for them.
- rdiddly 10y agoIt's a bet on human vanity, so I'd say smart.
- ashark 10y agoIt's absolutely brilliant if your goal is any of several things that don't actually involve delivering a valuable service to the people buying the device (if you must incidentally, that's fine). And if you have never so much as encountered the word "ethics".
- goshx 10y agoyeah, this is very suspicious. I just can't think how "fashion critic" is actually what motivated this.
- rl3 10y agoBecause who doesn't want their own personal Telescreen letting them know that their style is just so yesterday?
- hanoz 10y agoWho on earth are we going to sell these to? - People who want to be looked at!
- inopinatus 10y agoSounds like marketing genius to me. Everyone buys clothes.
- notheguyouthink 10y agoI'm just curious how the fashion advice works. Is there an active human component? Or is it purely ML based. I'll be quite impressed if ML can give meaningful feedback for the subtleties of what is considered flattering.
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoIt doesn't need ML, it will always be ever so slightly critical, enough to lower your self esteem and hence make you more vulnerable to buying crap from Amazon.
- mring33621 10y agoI would love if it were the aggregated opinions of randoms from Mechanical Turk.
- FoeNyx 10y agoAnd "Fashion" is highly dependent of the location. Trendy in Tokyo is maybe not so in Paris, and vice-versa.
- sp332 10y agoIt's for placement. You can't hide it out of the way or point it up at just your head. They need a good look at your whole room and your whole body, right down to the shoes.