Visiting guest. Why not sign in? |
News, knowledge and discussion for the AI enthusiast.
FEATURES |  | COMMUNITY |  | KNOWLEDGE |  | SEARCH |
Developers, get involved! The AI Foundry promotes the development of Open Source artificial intelligence projects. Why not join it now? All projects welcome extra help! Visit the AI Foundry |

Automated Shopping Predicting Trends
Automated Shopping There's an interesting article over on ZDNet entitled Digital ID: You Shop, They Snoop?. The main part of the article is about passive item tags, that respond only to the detector. When you walk out of the shop with your basket, everything is automatically charged to your credit card. Worrying issues are raised about privacy. The interesting part for Artificial Intelligence lies in the ability to instantly monitor trends. When a certain number of items has been purchased, a call to the warehouse can be made, and shelves can be stocked up again. Better still, once these masses of data are available, standard Pattern Recognition, Prediction or Data Mining algorithms can identify trends and understand them. Shops will be less likely to run out of goods that way. (Note that this is possible with today's technology, as items are already recorded and saved.) | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Monday 11 February, 12:23 Reply