That self-checkout AI at Home Depot couldn't tell a shovel from a broom and I ended up paying double

It rang up my crowbar as a pressure washer because the camera thought the handle was a hose, so I had to wait 15 minutes for a manager to override it, has anyone else had these things just completely fail at basic object recognition?

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the_margaret19d ago

Honestly this is just another example of how rushed tech is these days, companies push stuff out before it's ready because it looks good to investors. @drew_park is right about the training data being the issue, these systems learn from perfect conditions but the real world is full of weird angles and bad lighting.

drew_park23d ago

Haven't had that exact problem but I think this is one of those things where they train the AI on thousands of images and then a weird angle or lighting throws it off completely... my mom works at a grocery store and their self-checkout kept scanning bananas as cucumbers because of the lighting in that aisle. The tech is still pretty rough around the edges if you ask me.

iris57423d ago

@drew_park crazy how a little bad lighting can totally break a system trained on perfect studio shots.