something strange at the checkout

RichD · 2022-11-07T22:12:37+00:00

At Holy Foods the other day, a strange occurrence - I was doing the self-checkout, placed an apple on the scale, but accidentally typed in the code for tomato. It registered OK... "tomato, 4 oz, 50 cents"Then two seconds later, it started beeping... "transaction rejected, call assistance"??It knew the fruit wasn't a tomato! Or at least, behaved that way. Is that possible, has the AI reached that point?If so, it was presumably the overhead camera, not the scanner in the register.

Nov 07, 2022 Last reply: 3 years ago 25 Replies

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Jasen Betts 3 years ago

I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation. :)

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Martin Brown 3 years ago

It is old but I'm not convinced it isn't a replanted clone of the original apple tree. It might have regrown from the roots.

Several other locations have a piece of Newton's apple tree. eg.

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Do they still have a wide range of fun interactive science demos?

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Jeff Layman 3 years ago

It did. See "The real thing?" here:

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No idea.

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Carlos E.R. 3 years ago

That human is usually too busy to also look at the cameras efficiently. And that's something where a human tires soon. There can be both, but I think the idea of having a human is to spot errors in the AI.

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