More like “Amazon wants to SUPPLEMENT the barcode”.
If the AI can’t figure out bar codes there may yet be some hope that we will not have to worry about Skynet coming on line in the near future.
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got nothing to do
Some machine’s doing that for you
Artificial intelligence is a combination of simultaneous nonlinear equations (AKA Neural Networks) that can be trained to recognize patterns, integrated with intricate “if/then” programming to perform primitive, repetitive tasks.
It is certainly artificial, but it is certainly not “intelligent.”
Amazon wants to eliminate the workers ...Robots are cheaper..Just have to have people who can fix them
Be fine by me if we can eliminate one more space-wasting thing on packaging.
Problem is, it won’t. All we’ve done is add those weird QR boxes, endless safety info and languages, and nutrition info.
The packaging has gotten real expensive just from the size needed to fit all the items.
Then we read the article and discover that Amazon isn’t trying to replace the barcode. Instead, it wants to examine the physical shape of the object to verify if it is the right one being shipped.
As usual, a lying headline gets us to read the article, and by that time some people have forgotten what the headline said.
Amazon, I doubt you will take my advice, but here it is: during this scan to determine if the object is the right one, scan the barcode AND examine the image of the object. You’ll have a very low error rate if you do that.
Well, it should be easy for AI to keep track of a product’s point of origin: “China”…”China”…”China”…
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...
AI is not intelligent.
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.