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BBC: What is 'AI washing' and why is it a problem? (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 2 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

what continues to be absolutely fucking hilarious about this is that this sort of thing already fucking exists in mainland china, in the form of a boxshop you walk into where everything is tagged with RFID stickers. slap the basket into location, pay with phone, leave. and it exists based on 2010+ technology, that's fairly reliable.

(minor note: I haven't seen this in person but I've seen coverage of it, and I've worked with all the actual constituent technologies so I'm quite aware of how real this is and how well it can work, barring all the fuzzy in-practice biz-rule shit that inevitably has to be handled and solved (such as all real-world systems))

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Decathlon also does this in a bunch of locations in Europe.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

nice, wasn't aware of that having ground presence there

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

Well it’s from china so it must be evil and its publicity must be minimised /s

[–] luciole 7 points 2 months ago

I've gotten a few of these questions at work. Non tech workers will throw ideas such as "random math drill powered by AI" or even "search powered by AI". These things are already solved following a traditional approach. In the end they add "powered AI" in the hopes the estimate will be lower I think.