It's like a bad movie about a capricious monarch who occasionally decides to change the name of something. When the lackeys bow and scrape and run off to scribble in their dictionaries, that's the filmmakers saying to the audience, "Look how stupid monarchy is."
They're targeting the stupidest people, though; they won't understand that the monarch is stupid, they'll only understand, "He's one of us."
It's a grocery store chain. If they improve their productivity, it does not imply their customers purchased more. So yes, it would result in reduced staffing needs.
These are corporate employees, though. Most of them would have been replaced by spreadsheets if they were good enough at creating spreadsheets. It seems like a reasonable area for there to be actual cost savings by using AI. And probably in the future they'll be able to use locally hosted AI, too.
At my local Fred Meyer, which is owned by Kroger, it's 6 self-check per employee. It moves way more volume than a single cashier scanning everything would.
But more importantly, the customer is doing something most of the time. They're not just standing there waiting. So it's a lot less unpleasant.
If you don't scan an item, or if you try to put the wrong item in the bag, the AI watching from overhead camera will stop the process and flash a light until the clerk comes over, and then it shows a video of what happened and the human decides if it was a mistake or not. When they first installed the AI, it was going off constantly thinking the advertisement on the back of the cart was an unscanned item. But they fixed that within a couple weeks. I did set it off one time by picking up two of an item, scanning the first one, and then putting it in the bag. It noticed I picked up two and scanned one, but not that I was still holding one. So it does slow me down slightly.
A funny thing happened, I scanned some sake and was waiting for the clerk to do the ID check, when a person from the customer service desk was walking past on their way back from break. Soda bottle in hand. They stopped to help out, and did the ID check, but as they walked off the AI alarm went off. Then a second person from the Customer Service desk saw what was happening and came over to see what he messed up; the AI caught the employee running off with an unscanned soda! It was pretty funny.
There is almost no theft that takes place at the self checkout now. The AI isn't perfect, but you're not going to sneak an item into the bag without scanning it.
But thank you for standing in the other line, it only takes a few really slow people to gum up the works.
You do know they're a supermarket chain... right?
It isn't a mind, doesn't have unexpressed thought, isn't designed to multitask, doesn't have metacognition, doesn't have planning and doesn't separate levels of planning, etc.
You're an absolute moron who doesn't understand what an LLM is. It's just constructing statistically likely words into statistically likely syntax.
You pretend to be a philosopher with your "qualia" (a fake word which doesn't even have an accepted meaning) yet you say I can't prove a negative, as if you think you win an argument by saying that. Fucking moron. Yes, there are things happening inside LLMs. No, you're not going to understand them by reading Liebnitz. (Who was an idiot, though very good at math.)
The thing is, for consoles 30fps is entirely playable as long as its *stable* for all except the turbo-gamers who are unhappy with anything less than 120fps ultra 4k. 60fps is observably better. Beyond that... eh..... Not a lot of point outside of competitive PVP. Most gamers dont have reflexes fast enough to really make great use of it. But 30fps feels comfortable, just not perfect. But considering how shitty most loungeroom TVs are , your not gaining much.
People who really want high performance play on PCs anyway. Then higher FPSs start to matter, but you also have the high end of Nvidia cards for the speed fiends, and if it runs happily 30fps on a console, it'll run 60fps happily, and probably better on a 5070 or whatever.
It didn't eliminate either of those jobs.
Of course not. The combine didn't eliminate farm jobs, and the factory didn't eliminate blacksmith jobs. All of these technologies DID vastly reduce the number of those old jobs. Yes, including accountants and mathematicians. Accounting used to be done by rooms full of people writing numbers on paper ledgers. Now the same job is done by 1-2 people on a computer. Mathematicians used to be called "computers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Nobody does this job any more, computers do it completely.
I know, it's hard to even remember that people used to be hired to do these things, that's how completely the computer wiped out those professions.
You'll know eventually.
In other words, you believe this fervently, but you can't explain why. Sounds like religion to me.
Those GPUs are still selling used for $300 or more. That's just too much to spend for a card that's damn near 7 years old now.
GTA IV is a great game - in some ways better than GTV V - but it could really do with GTA V's driving physics.
Tablets are very easy to steal and the Pro ones are rather expensive. They start at $1500.
In fact Apple doesn't make anything that's hard to steal since they dropped the Mac Pro.
I have some X-10 controllers about the place. That's about it. The heat pump has its own programmable timer controller.
Ha! Or if you use cloth bags and the top keeps flopping over just as you're trying to put the item into it... and of course the kiosk is complaining loudly "PLEASE PLACE THE ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA" a millisecond after you scan the item. I'm trying, I'm trying!
I recently (finally!) found some grocery bags that consistently stay open and upright, which makes things easier... but still I apparently don't move fast enough for the stupid automation.
In the long run, every program becomes rococco, and then rubble. -- Alan Perlis
