Hate self-checkout? Get ready for a change you never expected
Summary
Arent you pulsating at the idea of, um, a frictionless shopping life brought to you by smart vision and machine learning? You see, this is the story of a company called SeeChange Technologies partnering with Diebold Nixdorf -- half of which name you may know -- to create, please wait for it, Fresh Produce Recognition. Still, the fine technological makers here realize that you can get annoyed when the self-checkout demands that you push the right button for the fruit youre buying -- wait, did you pick up organic or the other kind? To quote these two companies: "Using the artificial intelligence in SeeWare, SeeChanges edge-to-cloud AI platform, Diebold Nixdorf has enabled the integrated application of machine learning to recognize products, reducing friction at self-checkout for an improved buyer experience." Also: How to cut your grocery bill by shopping online He insists this is still an improvement on todays woeful ways: "This case still provides a good experience for the shopper by removing the look up item process, and for the retailer it provides an opportunity to create targeted analytics around organic variants and even audit a selection of these cases in real-time if they choose."