Robot packers and AI cameras: UK retail embraces automation to cut staff costs
From electronic shelf labels to more self-service checkouts, automation is coming to your local supermarket
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Its. Not. Fucking. AI.
Jfc this muck is going to make us as blind as a bat when an actual artificial sentience appears. An LLM does not an intelligence make.
I always considered the sci-fi def of AI to be the incorrect one. Once sentience appears. The intelligence is no longer artificial.
Seems to me the systems we have now that try to (badly) fake it, are real AI. And any created intelligence would be a Digital Intelligence or even just Created Intelligence.
They're not intelligent, though. The only thing they can do is repeat patterns according to prompt. That's literally all an LLM is - a massive relational database hooking up words and phrases, or repeating the laws of physics on a vast scale, or copying out design principles. Its nothing more than a stochastic parrot. It has no sentience, and sentience cannot be romanticised into it.
