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Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’... by jdmichal on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @04:32PM (#13421446)
I have a special hatred for self-checkout machines that attempt to monitor your bagging without an escape mechanism. Let loss prevention do their damn job and let me give you my money already. At least I can still vote with my feet and always go to a cashier in these places. Someday I probably won't be able to.
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Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’... by unclenoriega on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @04:54PM (#13421718)
There was a Planet Money segment about these. (I think it was Planet Money.) Apparently, there's a setting on these machines for the balance between convenience and loss prevention. It's up to the stores to set it where they want.
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Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’... by vkou on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @04:40PM (#13421545)
That sounds like hell. A buggy machine talking down to me hits quite a few of my buttons, but at least it doesn't interrupt my checkout process when it thinks I'm stealing groceries. (And given how often the alarm goes off, the loss prevention guys just ignore it.)
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