I'm confused. The article describes a really cool project as if it were already implemented, but there is no video of it actually working? Am I missing something?

this might be my first comment here heh.

i've worked on a similar product before.

there's no way they were turning a profit. they definitely missed stuff all the time even with a ton of sensors. and sensors aren't the only cost. annotation is by far the most costly operational expense. new product? needs several annotated photos and recalibrated weight sensors. merchant decides to put Christmas branding on the same UPC? now all your vision models are poisoned for that product. it needs to be re-annotated for the month and a half it exists and the models need to be swapped out once inventory changes over again. as long as merchants are redesigning products (always) your datasets will be in a constant state of decay. even if your vision sensors are stationary and know the modular design up front, you still need to be able to somewhat generalize in case things get misplaced (big problem for weight sensors) or the camera gets bumped.

between dataset management, technology costs, research costs, rote operational costs, etc this is a very expensive problem to solve. and large models with a ton of parameters are little help; they may lower annotation costs a bit but will increase the cost of compute.

once i really dug into this problem i saw Amazon Go's Just Walk Out for what it really was: a marketing stunt

What is Anthropic doing and who is their customer? AFAIK they over-censor their models, have subpar quality even compared to Llama 2 and Falcon 180B, have been generally even more closed than OpenAI, their pricing isn't competitive, no function calling, their long context window isn't that accurate.

Why are they even in business yet?

If you think about it, using “polite” language increases the probability the LLM will return a genuine, honest response instead of something negatively tinged or hallucinatory. It will mirror the character of language you use

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I’m so baffled by both your comments on this subject. And I have a hard time figuring out if you’re serious or if you’re joking.

It’s so weird. Some things are not business opportunities. If people are feeling lonely because society is a mess, that’s not a business opportunity. That’s a social issue that should be solved.

I didn't see a lot (or any) pictures of what poison ivy looks like once its dominated a habitat for a while, like the woody trunks it develops as it grows uninhibited on trees.

I lived in an area that had under-controlled poison ivy overgrowth, and it was always a challenge to convince people that poison ivy can look differently than what's expected once it's developed unimpeded for years.