Low-latency Machine learning for smart Shopping system

Sounds VERY invasive.

I don't like the idea of it much myself but the idea is to use video information so it's not morally different from having an assistant standing outside the shop eyeballing the punters. (Some of the less reputable Soho establishments used to do that.)

It looks as if the proposal is all vaporware so I'm not too worried about this specific idea yet.

But what is not too much of a problem when it's done inefficiently becomes quite different when the technology really bites.

More worrying (to me) is if someone big (you know the companies I mean) did it and correlates facial recognition with other data to make instant positive IDs of passers by. I'm expecting laws against this (and similar) within a year or two. Perhaps the answer would be to oblige anyone who uses personal data about an individual for the first time (or for a new purpose) to be obliged to get specific permission, on pain of a fine.

MK

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I don't like the idea of it much myself but the idea is to use video information so it's not morally different from having an assistant standing outside the shop eyeballing the punters. (Some of the less reputable Soho establishments used to do that.)

That's true (though I tend to avoid those types of store for that very reason), but such human assistants don't have direct API access to database of historic customers and their transactions.

This part sounds very much like facial recognition to me.

Just imagine the customer feeling when he hear a warm welcoming by his name from the system and sees his favorite products and recently added related products displayed on the front monitors.

Feels a bit reminiscent of this:

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michaelkellett  wrote:

 

I don't like the idea of it much myself but the idea is to use video information so it's not morally different from having an assistant standing outside the shop eyeballing the punters. (Some of the less reputable Soho establishments used to do that.)

That's true (though I tend to avoid those types of store for that very reason), but such human assistants don't have direct API access to database of historic customers and their transactions.

This part sounds very much like facial recognition to me.

Just imagine the customer feeling when he hear a warm welcoming by his name from the system and sees his favorite products and recently added related products displayed on the front monitors.

Feels a bit reminiscent of this:

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Thank you for the video. I haven't seen it before.

I don't want it to be like a science fiction. I want to make a practical product that can be marketed.

What do you think is missing to be marketable?

Your biggest hurdle might be take-up by companies who may be concerned about the negative backlash, from customers who don't want to be tracked and targeted electronically.