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A bit off topic but not really... from a side bar on Twitter: I was talking to a Safeway employee in the Seattle Market who explained to me: grocers (not just Safeway but in the aggregate) are losing 300-400 million a year due to 'stuff walking out the door'. There are plans in place to deal with this. (this is part of the logistics supply chain/ resource shrinkage problem in a scarcity crisis)
Essentially all retail chains in America today are using 1/ real time face ID 2/ any other signal they can get their hands on + 3/ AI to identify threats in real time, and signal PLAIN CLOTHES security officers (not 'normal employees') to implement whatever policy to deal with the problem. There is too much money involved and their other option is just shut down operations. This is all true since 'post COVID era' and we are there now. AI = 'Social Credit in real time'. Period. Pro-Tip. Buy a 'pet' RFID chip reader now, while you still can. I'll bet the protocols on those devices will help a...
Like the Monkey in the Planet of the Apes remake said ... 'Am I a pet?' Why yes. Yes you are.
Real time face ID uses a variant of the DVR called an 'NVR' (network video recorder) -- or possibly a VNVR (virtual NVR running on a 'PC' or similar IoT sort of thing in the store). Those search terms are good to watch for, in the coming supply chain / logistics crises. Believe me - that data is being mined for 'local repeat offenders' as well general 'AI training curated corpus of training data'. I'll bet China is doing the same thing, for different/similar reasons. Not sure about Europe but... I'll bet yes.
tl;dr - we are ALREADY on a par with China, if a bit laggy.
Just as, 'everything about oil or carbon trading is really about resource depletion'... well... 'everything about AI is really about managing that crisis using more data about the problem -- people, esp. useless feeders' 'They' don't need training data... they need YOUR biometrics. I wonder why.
btw, the 300-400 million USD figure above was for the Seattle Market, not the whole US. That must be well up in the billions if not 100s of billions
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