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Amazon Wants to Kill the Barcode
Cnet ^ | 12.9.2022 | Laura Hautala

Posted on 12/10/2022 10:30:41 AM PST by libh8er

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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Sure. But that’s OK. Any data on the packaging that’s usable by humans is also usable by robots. And what Amazon is figuring out is that once you’ve taught the robot to use the human data it doesn’t necessarily need the not human data (barcodes).


21 posted on 12/10/2022 12:36:57 PM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: libh8er

Wow!

They are adding pictures of every inanimate object to a database in addition to the database they already have called “Amazon Photos” (which already includes 17,562 photos that the wife & I have taken since 1960 of the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren)...

Very interesting...


22 posted on 12/10/2022 12:47:49 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Hambone 1934

“Just have to have people who can fix them”

Eventually, they’ll be able to fix themselves, and AI will run everything. Humans will not be needed and merely be in the way.


23 posted on 12/10/2022 12:57:17 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

24 posted on 12/10/2022 1:05:14 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake pandemic, fake vaccine, fake election, fake president.)
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To: null and void

Our area McD franchise went to full kiosk also. For substitutions that can’t be done in the app or at the kiosk I just go to the counter where they still are happy to enter on the register. There pretty much has to be a register for customers who order on the kiosk yet need to pay cash.


25 posted on 12/10/2022 1:07:19 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Carriage Hill

With folded hands.😵‍💫


26 posted on 12/10/2022 1:10:16 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Fresh Wind

LOL LOL! Someone should hack his Animatronic and have it say “Where are all the little girls? I wanna sniff their hair!”


27 posted on 12/10/2022 1:11:41 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Fresh Wind

HA! Have you ever seen this??.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huWFkFT9r0E


28 posted on 12/10/2022 1:15:25 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: libh8er

AI is not intelligent.


29 posted on 12/10/2022 1:19:19 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: discostu
Thank you. Concise and well stated.


30 posted on 12/10/2022 1:19:23 PM PST by Garth Tater (September 11: The New Pearl Harbor -- on Rumble and Youtube)
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To: steve86

AI walks into a McD’s and asks for ice cream.

McD’s says, “We do not have any ice cream.”

AI starts throwning the loose (”or not”) objects around, while trying to:

a) find ice cream
b) find bar code(s)
c) find the Biden-retrained to code, former auto worker (from closed Jeep Cherokee plant in Rockford, Illinois) who gave AI “the notion” that McD’s has ice cream . . .

and to everybody’s amazement, finds a laptop computer in the bottom of a trash bin.

CNN, Facebook, MSNBC suppress that news, and AI is quickly retrained by the Biden Administration, to “Protect Our Borders” and airlifted to the Ukraine.


31 posted on 12/10/2022 1:51:07 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: steve86

Thanks!


32 posted on 12/10/2022 3:31:05 PM PST by null and void (The “advantage” isn’t for you...it’s for the bank.)
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To: libh8er

Whatever they do, they just won’t think of establishing procedures which present the bar codes on the boxes in a uniform fashion. Nah, that would be too easy, and wouldn’t require millions of dollars worth of electronics.


33 posted on 12/10/2022 4:12:57 PM PST by GingisK
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To: libh8er
Japanese Barcode





34 posted on 12/10/2022 5:21:48 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: House Atreides
I’m always amazed when I get an Amazon delivery of something like a bundle of six toothpaste tubes in a two foot by three foot box. Still some fine tuning needed in their Operations.

The large boxes are to make it harder for thieves to steal from your porch.

35 posted on 12/10/2022 7:45:33 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: discostu
When a shoe store guy goes to the back room to get you the style and size you requested he ain’t using the barcode. He’s using the little square that has a picture of the shoe, the color (usually both in a square of color and with words), and size (usually in multiple measurement systems).

When the Home Depot guy is going to find you a power tool stored on one of the upper shelves, he finds the location on his smart phone app of the pallet of power tools that was scanned into that location by barcode.

36 posted on 12/10/2022 7:48:39 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

“ When the Home Depot guy is going to find you a power tool stored on one of the upper shelves, he finds the location on his smart phone app of the pallet of power tools that was scanned into that location by barcode.”
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I love how when I need some hardware item I can check the Lowe’s and Home Depot sites to see the price, if the item is in stock at a particular store and its precise location in the store. Now THAT is customer service.


37 posted on 12/10/2022 8:35:10 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Home Depot guys find things? Last time I bothered to ask them anything they just always said it was on the other side of the store. Sure stores might use barcode scanning while stocking to record where stuff is. That doesn’t counter anything I’ve said.


38 posted on 12/11/2022 5:39:08 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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