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San Francisco Gets Its First Cashierless Store (cnbc.com)
Last Week, San Francisco got its first completely automated cashierless store, called Standard Market. The store requires users to download their app before they can enter the 1,900-square-foot building. Once they do that, they can enter the store, grab the items they need, and walk out -- all without ever interacting with a cashier. The 27 cameras positioned on the ceiling are supposedly able to identify which items shoppers walk out with. CNBC reports: The start-up behind this operation is Standard Cognition, which has raised $11.2 million in venture capital and formed partnerships with four retail chains around the world. This first market is a prototype to showcase the technology and work on the bugs. The ambitious goal is to add the tech in 100 stores a day (each day!) by 2020. Five of the seven founders came from the Securities and Exchange Commission, where they built artificial intelligence software to detect fraud and trade violations, before starting Standard Cognition in 2017. Now these fraud experts are working to discern something equally complicated: whether I am stealing a snack. The store is very similar to Amazon's cashierless Go market, but differs in that it relies exclusively on the ceiling cameras and AI software to figure out what you're buying. "The goal is to predict, and prevent, shoplifting, because unlike Amazon's Go stores, which have a subway turnstile-like gate for entry and exit, Standard Market has an open door, and the path is clear," reports CNBC. "Once the system decides it has detected potential theft behavior, a store attendant will get a text and walk over for 'a polite conversation,' Standard Cognition's co-founder and chief operating officer, Michael Suswal, said."
But I have a security idea: when the system detects a possible robbery, it will blare The Star-Spangled Banner over the sound system. As the gang takes a knee, the store attendant can invoke 911.
The sjws mist be up in arms on this. So many females will lose their jobs.
Pretty much just wiped out all these entry level jobs trying to making cashier work into a career.
Because people tend to get very mad when someone accuses them of stealing.
The problem isn't one shoplifter. It's a mob of 20 or 25 walking in behind a shopper, cleaning the place out, and running out.
Not that I consider this a problem -- anything that destroys the profit margins of cashless/anti-privacy businesses is a good thing in my book. Bring on the flashmobs!
âSan Francisco Gets Its First Cashierless Store"
First, eh. Texas has had cashierless stores for a hundred years. We call them "vending machines".
Nazi punk-asses like yourself apparently have never seen an actual gang. They would fuck your shit right up lol, faggot nazi bitches.
Ray Morris is the same lying faggot that backed the White supremacist lies about South Africa a few weeks back. https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12520486&cid=57184660
This is San Francisco, where what counts is that you had good intentions. Actual consequences of your actions? Consequences smaushcequences.
Free the minks!
Americans dislike each other so much that they don't even want to talk to a cashier at a store. Sad.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
The AI consists of an algorithm which determines if skin tone is dark, and calls the police while proactively electrifying the taser floor and pumping mace from the fire suppression system.
Hire 3 children's sports teams to register on the App and run in all at once, each grabs as much as they can carry and run out. See what happens. If anything gets "stolen" just use the excuse that you were just testing.
The AI consists of an algorithm which determines if skin tone is dark, and calls the police while proactively electrifying the taser floor and pumping mace from the fire suppression system.
That's the Republican convention...
*(at least until Trump hangs for treason)
tolerant liberal
Your impotent rage never fails to amuse me.
Does it have a robot to clean up after the vagrants shit on the floor?
I came up with a system 10 years ago that does this and guarantee there is no theft without the cameras. Test it several times and it worked perfectly. Unfortunately it was a head of its time and was a hard sell.
Raise the minimum wage higher than the cost to roll out tech, this is what you get, fewer jobs
For someone who "appears" or claims to be on the left of center, you sure do seem to like the word "faggot". Methinks thou doth protest too much...
Hate to break it to you buddy, but you would appear to qualify as EXTREME right. Ya know the kind... So extreme right that you scream about homosexuals, until you are hoarse, and then go home to have man-on-man love...
Let me guess... You're not gay if you beat him up afterwards?
a store attendant will get a text and walk over for 'a polite conversation
That's great, but how fast can they RUN?
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
I just can't wait for the day when I can no longer buy food without a working, charged smartphone with a corporate grocery app installed. [/sarcasm]
Market between 6th and 7th? Yeah. Good luck with that, guys.
Imagine all the people...
The proverb about the pavement on the road to hell notwithstanding, I'll take good intentions that go awry over active malice any day.
Imagine all the people...
Walmart had self checkout...big deal
Nazi punk-asses like yourself apparently have never seen an actual gang. They would fuck your shit right up lol, faggot nazi bitches.
I heartily agree.
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The turnstile was technically unnecessary since thieves would just hop it anyway. Presumably a stolen phone wouldn't help much since it'd be locked and you'd need to unlock it and go into the app, and the phone you're about to steal might not have the app installed.
I'm skeptical the attendant will be of any use, since there's already a standard technique for dealing with that: have an accomplice tie them up with customer service questions.
I'm really wondering what happens if you pick something up and hand it to another person. Who gets charged for the item? If it's the person who picks it up, then that opens up "can you lift/reach this thing for me? I'm short/have a bad back/etc." problems/scams.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
In SF. Good fucking luck.
Or I shall be forced to take your picture again.
(again)
There have been cashierless gorceries in California for some time. I used to love Fresh 'n Easy. Sorry, millennials, you didn't 'invent' something first, yet again.
Put a bag on my head and walk out of the store with 50 ipads.
I dont have to hit you for longer than a couple minutes before you will unlock your phone, smartgai.
Strong evidence for time travel, because this "insult" is straight out of 2001.
I swear user interfaces peaked 8 to 10 years ago and have gotten worse ever since.
That sort of coincides with the rise in use of fingers on a 4 inch screen at the expense of a mouse and a 19+ inch screen.
I'm sure after a couple of drones make off with the stock or someone trains a dog to run out with an unpaid-for string of sausages..... something will change.
the extreme right and the extreme left both rotate around the end to the same, sad, pathetic place.