It isn't that bad an idea.
Imagine that next time you are drunk, you can hire a driver who will drive you back home remotely (along with some AI to stop the car in case connection goes away).
Imagine that next time you are drunk, you can hire a driver who will drive you back home remotely (along with some AI to stop the car in case connection goes away).
They already have perfect resolution and data retention of everything you buy at checkout time when it's scanned, plus they can verify your identity rather than have to rely on facial recognition or other things. I don't think this is any creepier than what they already do so from their perspective it is "common sense."
Imho more like an anecdote than a sourced story, but a good one nonetheless.
Of course outsourcing to cheaper humans can be great. But that's not what tech is shilling to the world as "AI" right now.
If you go into a grocery shop to grab lunch, spending $8 on 4 items, and they make 5 cents of profit per item? They need to run an extremely lean operation.
Or target price-insensitive customers, I suppose.
they simply need to run a good ordering/inventory system. If they sell every item (on average) in each store every week, that's 2.39% return on the value of the inventory investment each week, or 52*.0239 or over 100% annual return on money they borrow for free because the store pays its grocery bills to suppliers in arrears, net 10 days, etc
Which is not much.
Maybe not a bad idea - it is a step towards autonomous driving, and will probably ensure drivers have less unintentional down time.
Is this satire? It doesn't seem like a fantastic idea to allow someone to remotely pilot a car over a transoceanic Internet link.
That’s what it’s actually like. It’s just strictly more work than simply having a cashier.