Dangers of relying on AI

[myglaren]

[myglaren]

Sainsbury's pauses AI cameras after shopper ousted (BBC)

"Sainsbury's has suspended its use of live facial recognition technology at one of its London branches after a customer was wrongly challenged as a shoplifter and asked to leave.

Matt Arnold, 46, was buying items at the East Dulwich store when he was stopped by management at a self-service till.

Describing the experience as a "terrifying glimpse of the future," he has warned that retail surveillance tech risks humiliating customers and creating a system where staff feel compelled to follow automated alerts without applying human logic."

[CitroJim]

Indeed, a glimpse of a future already largely upon us...

I hope he got his shopping for free by way of apology...

[mickthemaverick]

ibidder are clearly using AI for their marketing, what a complete and utter waste of electrical energy, computer storage space, network traffic space and my time!!!!!

This is typical of what I mean, I have transcribed the email I got this morning:

What a complete waste of resources!!!

[MattBLancs]

How are the valve springs on your kitchen cupboards, Mick?


I can't stand when you search Google for a specific part number (e.g. clutch kit as I have recently) and it's clearly got the intelligence to understand this is part number for a clutch kit, so the sponsored shopping results at top of the page are all clutch kits... Very clever.

But are they the specific clutch kit you are looking for?

Are they clutch kits fitting your make of car, albeit different engine options?

No, no, of course not, they are just miscellaneous clutches, fitting any different car under the rainbow!?!?!?!?!??!

[PaulC5]

On BBC 2 Newsnight the other day it was reported tech companies are borrowing huge sums of money to develop AI being scared of being left behind. This as well as USA/Iran is pushing up interest rates and causing problems for governments with possibly taxes needing to go up to pay the interest.