Simon Mackenzie, a security officer at the discount retailer QD Stores outside London, was short of breath. He had just chased after three shoplifters who had taken off with several packages of laundry soap. Before the police arrived, he sat at a back-room desk to do something important: Capture the culprits’ faces. On an aging desktop computer, he pulled up security camera footage, pausing to zoom in and save a photo of each thief. He then logged in to a facial recognition program, Facewatch, which his store uses to identify shoplifters. The next time those people enter any shop within a few miles that uses Facewatch, store staff will receive an alert. “It’s like having somebody with you saying, ‘That person you bagged last week just came back in,’” Mr. Mackenzie said. Use of facial recognition technology by the police has been heavily scrutinized in recent years, but its application by private businesses has received less attention. Now, as the technology improves and its cost falls, the systems are reaching further into people’s lives. No longer just the purview of government agencies, facial recognition is increasingly being deployed to identify shoplifters, problematic customers and legal adversaries. Facewatch, a British company, is used by retailers across the country frustrated by petty crime. For as little as 250 pounds a month, or roughly $320, Facewatch offers access to a customized watchlist that stores near one another share. When Facewatch spots a flagged face, an alert is sent to a smartphone at the shop, where employees decide whether to keep a close eye on the person or ask the person to leave. Mr. Mackenzie adds one or two new faces every week, he said, mainly people who steal diapers, groceries, pet supplies and other low-cost goods. He said their economic hardship made him sympathetic, but that the number of thefts had gotten so out of hand that facial recognition was needed. Usually at least once a day, Facewatch alerts him that somebody on the watchlist has entered the store. A sign at a supermarket that uses Facewatch in Bristol, England. Facial recognition technology is proliferating as Western countries grapple with advances brought on by artificial intelligence. The European Union is drafting rules that would ban many of facial recognition’s uses, while Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, has encouraged retailers to try the technology to fight crime.
here is a sci fi story> Folks want to use Chat Box's to shop-- which will lead to robots shopping for you and driving back home in automatic cars.. ayyyyyyyy. I've been hit by a shopping robot!!! IdioT! metal fool!~ it's a roundabout.... Grocery shopping Now let’s talk about the future. OpenAI is developing a plug-in platform, which is essentially a third-party app store that allows you to add capabilities to ChatGPT. Currently only subscribers who pay $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus can use plug-ins, including the ones for web browsing and shopping. To use plug-ins if you’re a paying subscriber, go to the ChatGPTsettings menu, click “beta features,” and turn on “plugins.” Then, in the ChatGPT app or website, go to the GPT-4 tab and click “plugins.” Then click on the downward arrow and select the plugin store. This is where you can search for apps. Let’s start with one for the grocery delivery app, Instacart. Try typing a prompt like, “I am making pasta Bolognese. What’s a good recipe and what are the ingredients?” The chatbot will list the ingredients that go into the dish and offer to generate a shopping list. Another interesting way to use the plug-in is to shop around dietary restrictions. For example, “I am making dinner for a pescatarian. Give me a suggestion and the ingredients.” The bot will suggest a meal — in my case, lemon garlic butter shrimp — and list the ingredients. Clicking on the shopping list will bring you to Instacart, where you can automatically load all the items into your cart and choose a grocery store to purchase them from. If you don’t want to pay for ChatGPT Plus, you can still use A.I. for grocery shopping. Try asking Bing for a recipe, then ask it for the shopping list of required ingredients. In one particularly neat trick, you can even ask it to organize your shopping list by grocery store aisle. So---- Crossing the Matrix when ChatBot steals<--- when AI checks out two sets of razors and pays for one<----- When AI shoplifts<-------
Try typing a prompt like, “I am making pasta Bolognese but can't afford the good pasta sauce which I really want. It would make me happy to have the most expensive pasta sauce for the price of the least expensive pasta sauce."
TED- COIN is bouncing a bit-- the rest of my board is red. I'm going to exit shortly. Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN) NasdaqGS - NasdaqGS Real Time Price. 77.72-2.21 (-2.77%) As of 10:16AM EDT. Market open.
TROW looks like a real channel investing name- Upper channel $136<--------- TROW T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. Looks good! $112.17-1.09 (-0.96%)10:20 AM 07/05/23 NASDAQ | $USD | Realtime
Interesting set up> Jefferies double upgraded ACM Research (ACMR) to Buy from Underperform with a price target of $23.40, up from $9. The Dutch government announced advanced semiconductor processor export rules last Friday, allowing the export of ASML's (ASML) oldest Arf immersion machine, NXT1980Di, the firm notes
https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/ACMR/charting?compare=ACMR&interval=5D&metric=priceReturn $13---$15 I guess friday////// Could say this is a bull flag.