Alabama confirmed as actually Pandora
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using artificial intelligence to verify a buyer’s age
current year - birth year = buyer's ageWe really need to bring LLMs into this? Lmaoà!
You need AI to convert the image of the ID into text. Which is an AI technology that’s existed for over ten years and used in many applications.
OpenCV, no AI needed
https://www.ibm.com/topics/computer-vision
Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses machine learning and neural networks to teach computers and systems to derive meaningful information from digital images, videos and other visual inputs
https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/computer-vision/
Computer vision applications use artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to process this data accurately for object identification and facial recognition, as well as classification, recommendation, monitoring, and detection.
https://cloud.google.com/vision
Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computers and systems to interpret and analyze visual data and derive meaningful information from digital images, videos, and other visual inputs. Some of its typical real-world applications include: object detection, visual content (images, documents, videos) processing, understanding and analysis, product search, image classification and search, and content moderation.
that uses machine learning and neural networks
Great, but AFAIK OpenCV can do this without NNs.
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Source?
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Other kinds of machine learning such as genetic algorithms are also considered AI.
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For somebody who acts like they know CV, you seem fully unaware of it.
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Nice moving the goal post. People are obviously talking about DNN here, but now you talk about learning in general.
Yeah, you’re making stuff up
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I thought that it was weird too but they are probably using some kind of machine learning to look at the buying to try and classify age and if the image on the ID matches.
You have to do facial recognition with a cheap webcam. Apparently using AI is still so cost-prohibitive, they already had to pull one of these machines. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2024/07/10/chips-chocolate-and-ammunition-at-a-vending-machine-near-some/
Facial recognition shouldn’t be costly, you can do it on Raspberry Pi with a Coral.
I like citations and context, thank you.
That isn’t what that article says. It talks about American Rounds and other companies that use vending machine to sell restricted products. A different company Master Ammo found using AI for facial verification to be costly when they looked at it “years ago”. The article doesn’t specify how long ago that was. If it was 12 years ago, which is the age of Master Ammo, I would find that plausible.
The machine for American Rounds was pulled because of “disappointing sales”. Retail space ain’t free, and I bet it has slim margins too.
In any case, the whole endeavor may not be viable in the long run. They either have to get costs low enough to compete with brick and mortar stores and the Big Box stores, or they have to go where none exist while finding enough locations to recoup development costs. The devil’s in the details and unfortunately all the reporting on this has been quick news stories.
So you could bypass this thing by printing out an image of anybody off the internet and just hold it up to the camera?
How the hell should I know
But Alabama, specifically, was very against the use of ai and facial recognition and passed a bill to limit it’s use. Now they are willing to use it to have a record of exactly when and where they buy ammunition and exactly which caliber? Cognitive disconnect when it’s about convenience, huh
I don’t know if they use facial recognition.
I also don’t think they are.
You only need age recognition and maybe facial matching between two images. That’s very different from scanning all people from CCTV footage.
When it’s sunday evening and you aren’t prepared for school tomorrow.
AI image recognition for age verification.
Famously 100% accurate. Hence why even humans who need to verify age look at the birth date on your driver’s license.
I hate it here.
Fallout New Vegas was right
“American Rounds” . Lols. :)
Does anyone actually trust AI in its current stage of development to handle this?
Obviously someone does
or maybe they don’t care so long as it makes them money
Or it’s not actually using AI, and they just wanted another buzzword to throw into the marketing
America: You can’t have free health because that’s socialism but you can replenish your Glock 9 stock because FURDUM!!!
Well, an ability to buy stuff for a gun does not exclude the possibility to have an affordable healthcare. US does not have affordable one, but I live in a country with “free” healthcare and it is so shitty that I and my family need to go to private doctors anyway 90% of cases. We need to pay twice: one for the “free” healthcare in taxes and the second time at the private doctor. Admitedly, less fucked up than in US, but this still fucking sucks.
THIS. Sometimes, a silly vending machine in Alabama is just a vending machine in Alabama, not the summation of what you think is wrong with other peoples’ politics.
I need to pick up some bread and .38 rounds.
Ain’t nobody can afford to shoot .38 these days. Rim fire linking and the occasional 9mm mag and I’m broke.
That’s a good deal on ice.
in what universe is 1.99 a good deal on ice, get some tap water and freeze it
Not all tap water is good to drink. Some people wells or some city water is bad.
Personally I only buy it if the power is out (to help pack the fridge and freezer) or road trips / camping. Where yes is could try to store a coolers worth of ice in my freezer but its just not worth it
Thank you! I feel SEEN. ya leave nice fresh ice in the freezer long enough, it gets funky, especially if it’s stored with other food.
My freezer is tiny. Check your freezer size privilege, man! ;)
well wouldn’t you need a freezer to store that ice anyways if there is some left?
No, I’m American. Every drink is 64 oz and I need 5 kilos of ice for one batch of homebrew beer.
Are you cold crashing when you brew? I brew beer but haven’t cold crashed a batch yet. Is there a difference in the taste?
So far, I always cold crash to get the impurities/ carbohydrates to fall out of the solution and leave a less hazy wort. I like a gnarly trub in my kettle, before I start transferring to the ale pail/ bucket fermenter. So, I don’t know what a beer would taste like without it. I’ve only brewed ales and lambics so far.
Welp, no place in the freezer, guess I’ll need to have another margarita!
how they work? Probably like any other vending machine?
Bullets aren’t all that volatile.
The US has moved another step towards being an actual video game
Nah, I wouldn’t even play a video game this bad… but you’re right, there’s been a lot of “GTA Online energy” to it recently though.
Nah, in GTA you have to buy your ammo from a store. This is Bioshock and Borderlands energy.
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