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Post by spiorf »

larzang wrote: post #385
WalterBright wrote: post #367

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> and marrying that to what Amazon already knows about you. Amazon is always putting up ads for me based on my purchase history, but they're never what I wind up buying. I have no explanation for what is wrong with their algorithm.

But you just bought a toilet seat, surely you want five more toilet seats, you toilet seat enthusiast you.

I bought a new phone in a store, then bought a cover and a screen protecton on amazon. It sent me a notification: "We think you might be interested in a new phone".

It's pretty obvious that people don't go around shopping for screen protectors and then buy phones to match.

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Post by goatlover »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #158
shadowgovt wrote: post #61

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Yes, if you don't trust the retailer with your privacy, you shouldn't use their store. That rule applies in general. Even 7-11 has security cameras capturing faces of people entering and leaving the store.

Security cameras are different from facial recognition systems.

And how do you know when the feed isn’t being fed or sold to a company utilizing facial recognition?

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

dcolkitt wrote: post #430

Here's an off the wall idea. This technology could be used in airport bathrooms to enforce hand washing during a pandemic. It's well established that hand washing, or lack thereof, in an airport setting can supercharge the global spread of disease. The spread of coronavirus could be reduced by up to 60% by consistent handwashing[1] by air travelers. This tech could flag people who walk out of the bathroom without sto…

Don't forget the planes!

Re: “Just walk out” technology by Amazon

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Post by nil-sec »

I wonder how vulnerable this system is to adversarial attacks. This will depend on the details of the implementation and is probably easy to guard against (e.g. by using an additional, non-NN based tracker or out-of-distribution detection), but it is an interesting scenario. Would you get arrested for entering a shop with a sweater that features a (seemingly) random noise print, making the payment system malfunction?

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Post by goatlover »

egdod wrote: post #106
txcwpalpha wrote: post #72

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>But this is real-life shopping, not online. Online shopping is 100% optional. Real-life shopping is not. What? Is someone holding a gun to your head and forcing you to go shopping? I don't understand this statement. "Real-life shopping" is just as optional as online shopping is. Hell, "real-life shopping" is more optional in this regard because you can always pay with cash and escape the aforementioned privacy conce…

Gotta eat. Some kind of shopping is essentially non-optional unless you grow all your food. And using cash isn’t opting out of real-life shopping, it’s just opting out of one payment method.

Even if you grew all your own food, there’s plenty of other things you will need.

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Post by notyourwork »

AllanHoustonSt wrote: post #467
ndelage wrote: post #352

The last few times I've gone to my local pharmacy (Rite Aid) I've watched a single cashier operate more than one checkout registers at a time. She did this because it took so long to process payment and print a receipt -- e.g. while she waited for my payment to go through (via credit card) she'd ring up the next customer on another register. She's trying to ring up the most customers per minute possible and using a s…

I feel like self checkout kiosks already solve this. Commodotized Amazon Go tech is a minute improvement in convenience compared to traditional cashier -> self checkout.

Minor compared to self checkout seems understating the impact depending on where you are and how busy the store is. I find myself waiting in line for a self checkout regularly. (Target and recently Home Depot.) Compared to just walking out, this would save at least 5 minutes for each visit in my experience.

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

soheil wrote: post #465
dcolkitt wrote: post #430

Here's an off the wall idea. This technology could be used in airport bathrooms to enforce hand washing during a pandemic. It's well established that hand washing, or lack thereof, in an airport setting can supercharge the global spread of disease. The spread of coronavirus could be reduced by up to 60% by consistent handwashing[1] by air travelers. This tech could flag people who walk out of the bathroom without sto…

It is terrifying that people actually advocate for such authoritarian measures outside of mainland China. Every tyrant ever existed probably had at least one valid reason to justify their particular flavor of tyrannical rule. Coincidentally often it's not very difficult to find numbers that back up stripping people of their freedom, just find the right statistics.

What is terrifying of denying people acting like pigs the possibility of spreading their shit? I mean in general, not only because of the current scare. They should be TAZED by some installed automatic system.

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

dcolkitt wrote: post #430

Here's an off the wall idea. This technology could be used in airport bathrooms to enforce hand washing during a pandemic. It's well established that hand washing, or lack thereof, in an airport setting can supercharge the global spread of disease. The spread of coronavirus could be reduced by up to 60% by consistent handwashing[1] by air travelers. This tech could flag people who walk out of the bathroom without sto…

Yeah and what happens when a false negative happens and you get an embarrassing unjustified alarm?

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Post by vl »

sarah180 wrote: post #309
MattDamonSpace wrote: post #247

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Yep. I've been sitting here thinking Amazon was going to spool up tons of retail locations that leveraged their tech to create a massive moat that other Brick & Mortars couldn't possibly compete with. In hindsight it seems obvious that the play was to "AWS" the whole thing: make yourself the first/best customer, nail the implementation, then sell it to the world.

It's hard to imagine Amazon actually starting a bunch of retail locations. They'd probably buy Whole Foods or something…

Or Borders...
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