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At the Circle K they have the option of doing self checkout by putting all your items under a camera and the register will automagically count 'em up and assess
by bitwize 2y ago
At the Circle K they have the option of doing self checkout by putting all your items under a camera and the register will automagically count 'em up and assess your total. I keep wondering if it's done by AI -- All Indians. Same with the OCR ATMs do on cheques.
- evbogue 2y agoThis vibes with my multiyear theory that Tesla self-driving is someone in China driving your car for you like a racing simulator. Perhaps the graphics are even game-ified so the work stays mysterious.
- thih9 2y agoI hope that whoever operates these devices, is aware about it. > So much of “ai” is just figuring ways to offload work onto random strangers. https://xkcd.com/1897/ https://xkcd.com/1897/ (2017)
- Joel_Mckay 2y agoIf you have ever manually labeled an image set for ML, it is not far from the truth of the process. =3
- evbogue 2y agoI'm not a data scientist but is that not a hotdog emoji?
- Joel_Mckay 2y agoHotdogs contain just about everything... including c===3 parts... =3
- thih9 2y agoA cat face emoji.
- bitwize 2y agoIndeed, even legitimate "AI" is just human intelligence that's been macrodata-refined into a huge matrix of weights.
- xeromal 2y agoThere's a car company that runs in vegas that does exactly that. You rent the car for a few hours and it will be driven up to you by a remote driver and then when you're done it'll drive off remotely. No AI needed.
- AStonesThrow 2y ago> driven up to you by a remote driver This is hopefully illegal and not actually what is done, because I have learned from Waymo that it is not permissible or even possible for the CS reps to remotely drive the car. They merely push "suggestion" commands to be considered by the onboard Waymo Driver. Remote human drivers have too much latency and not enough realtime information available to "drive" a vehicle on public roads.
- xeromal 2y ago* https://halo.car/ https://halo.car/ * https://vay.io/ https://vay.io/
- kfarr 2y agoWow thanks for sharing. I genuinely didn’t think this was legal.
- xeromal 2y agoYeah I was surprised too when they handed me a voucher when I left a hotel last time I was there. Really cool concept. I wasn't able to use it because it was only on iPhone
- fc417fc802 2y agoFrom the second link: > In the event of an emergency, the vehicle automatically puts itself into a safe state within milliseconds by coming to a safe stop in the same lane. It sounds to me like the hardware has some amount of autonomy. They just aren't trying to do the high level stuff. Both companies seem like they're trying to hide the implementation details though which immediately makes me suspicious of them.
- cryptoz 2y agoAnd important.
- uptown 2y agoYou didn’t really think you were playing “Crazy Taxi” did you?
- trhway 2y ago> someone in China driving your car for you like a racing simulator. while sleeping and connected by NeuraLink. Before Musk/NeuraLink gets to me though, judging by the content of some of my dreams, i've been driving a space-folding spaceships for some aliens.
- palmotea 2y ago> This vibes with my multiyear theory that Tesla self-driving is someone in China driving your car for you like a racing simulator. Perhaps the graphics are even game-ified so the work stays mysterious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_Simulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_Simulator
- codr7 2y agoVery Ender's Game.
- bitwize 2y agoThere were scenes from Black Panther in which Shuri drives a car in Korea remotely from Wakanda. I thought, wow, she can do that from thousands of km away with zero latency! They must have super advanced tech to have solved the network latency problem.
- tczMUFlmoNk 2y agoRelevant: Uniqlo's self checkout, based on RFID tags with a great user experience: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38715111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38715111 - https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/uniqlo-self-checkout-rfid-holiday-shopping-fast-retailing-c4287e2f https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/uniqlo-self-checkout-rfi... - https://archive.is/ms1ke https://archive.is/ms1ke
- sethhochberg 2y agoThose Uniqlo self checkouts really do fall into that “ indistinguishable from magic” territory for me - on a technological level I completely understand how they work, and yet every time I use them I’m a little surprised that it works so well and filled with joy anyways
- rtkwe 2y agoAh man I remember the RFID hype when the idea was you'd just shop and walk out and the items would all be automatically scanned by an RFID reader and charged. A tough lift in a grocery store but a single source store can build all the tags into their own products.
- joshvm 2y agoDecathlon use a similar system: https://sustainability.decathlon.com/product-traceability-and-rfid-technology-at-decathlon https://sustainability.decathlon.com/product-traceability-an...
- reddalo 2y agoEvery time I shop at Decathlon it feels like magic.