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Brace yourself for today’s Daily Bite – it’s a buffet of information, but with fewer calories and more laughs!
Today’s Menu 🥡
- Cyberpunk 7-Eleven: Walk-In, Walk-Out
- Greenbots, Roll Out!: Robots Take On Recycling
- What Is Computer Vision?: The New Normal
- Viral Clip Maker: Trim Long Form Video
- 3D Website Design: With Zero Coding Experience
- Your Custom Chatbot: Built Around Your Website
Checkout Without Scanning Your Items 🛒
7-Eleven in Australia is teaming up with a company called Grabango to introduce a new way of shopping in some of their stores.
Instead of scanning items at the checkout, a special technology using cameras and smart algorithms will keep track of what people pick up, so they can just walk out when they’re done – much like Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” technology.
This technology will be added to the 7-Eleven app, and they’re planning to start it in about 10 stores by the end of next year.
Meaning, you won’t have to scan items or stand in line to pay.
This change is part of 7-Eleven’s efforts to make shopping easier and more modern for everyone.
A ‘Just Walk Out’ Shop
Robots Are Ready To Recycle ♻️
Trash is a global issue we all contribute to, and despite our best efforts to recycle, only 16% of the world’s solid waste actually gets recycled.
In the US, around 32% of garbage is recycled, and of those recycled materials only 80-95% make it through the entire process.
Why is that?
Recycling requires a complex system of collecting, sorting, cleaning, and processing, and humans play a substantial role in that.
Sure, there are screens and sensors to separate materials, but it’s not perfect. Nor are the employees hand-picking items from the conveyor belt.
Once again, we find ourselves looking toward computer-based systems to identify recyclable materials at superhuman speeds.
Using computer vision, machine learning, and robots to identify and sort recycled material, we can:
- Improve the accuracy of sorting machines.
- Reduce the need for human intervention.
- Boost overall recovery rates.
If everything goes to plan, AI will slowly chip away at the billions of tons of recyclables that end up in landfills each year & in turn save us billions of dollars in valuable resources.
An AI-powered robot sorting recyclable items.
You Keep Saying ‘Computer Vision’ But What Is It? 👀
Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science that focuses on enabling computers and machines to interpret and understand visual information from the world, much like humans do.
Basically, we’re giving computers eyes, a brain, and a task to accomplish.
The goal of computer vision is to give machines the ability to perceive their surroundings, recognize objects, understand scenes, and extract meaningful information from visual data.
And this has a wide range of applications across various industries, including healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, entertainment, surveillance, agriculture, and more.
You’ve probably seen a good bit about computer vision when discussing China’s social credit system or a Tesla’s full self-driving capability.
Computer vision technologies are advancing rapidly, driven by improvements in machine learning, deep learning, and the availability of large datasets for training algorithms.
Transforming the way machines interact with the visual world and opening up new possibilities for automation and innovation.
If you think this is creepy…
You should know what all major stores in the world knows about you as a shopper
They use in-store, online, cell-tower, and more to keep track of everything… everything.
Cambridge analytics is a joke in comparison
— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam) August 18, 2023
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Clip Long Form Video Fast 📼
It seems like everyone is creating content these days, but not everyone has the time to leverage the content they make.
Vizard uses AI to edit your long form videos into short, easy-to-repurpose clips, so you can throw more juicy content on your socials.
Create An Insane Website With A Prompt 🌎
There are few AI tools that impress me after 6 months of constant viral posts passing through my feed.
However, this tool, called Dora, makes 3D website design & animation simple – without having to code.
You drag & drop elements, like you’re using Squarespace or Wix, and then prompt their AI input to turn things up a notch.
Watch this:
Custom Chatbot Built On Your Data 🤖
If you want to know how to build an AI chatbot from scratch, you’re talking about things that are way over my paygrade.
If you want to know how to build an AI chatbot with Dante, that’s something anyone can do.
You upload multiple files, websites, images, and/or videos to train, customize, and embed a chatbot on your website within minutes.
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Today’s Fast Snacks 🥡
OpenAI May Face Lawsuit From New York Times
The Times started negotiations with OpenAI for months to reach a licensing agreement for their data, but now ChatGPT is a direct competitor & they’re not happy.
Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere A.I. making stuff up?
Researchers from Arthur AI claim that popular AI models tend to skew facts or share straight up lies.
Social Media Market Size & Share Analysis on AI
Social media has become one of the primary sources of customer intelligence data.
What Is A Liquid Neural Network?
Speaking to the head of MIT CSAIL about emerging technology and implications for robotics.
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