No Cashier? No Problem: Amazon supermarkets go cashier-less thanks to AI.
Retail

No Cashier? No Problem: Amazon supermarkets go cashier-less thanks to AI.

Shoppers at Amazon’s newest grocery store can skip the checkout line. Amazon opened its first full-scale supermarket that monitors which items customers place in their cart and charges them automatically when they leave. It calls the system Just Walk Out.

June 30, 20211 min read
Cream of the Startup Crop: CB Insights published its list of top AI startups for 2021.
Retail

Cream of the Startup Crop: CB Insights published its list of top AI startups for 2021.

AI startups continue to roared ahead, global pandemic or no. Tech industry analyst CB Insights published its fifth annual list of the 100 most promising private AI companies.

April 21, 20211 min read
Cream of the Startup Crop: CB Insights published its list of top AI startups for 2021.
Retail

Cream of the Startup Crop: CB Insights published its list of top AI startups for 2021.

AI startups continue to roared ahead, global pandemic or no. Tech industry analyst CB Insights published its fifth annual list of the 100 most promising private AI companies.

April 21, 20211 min read
How Much For That Vintage Gucci?: An AI system that appraises luxury handbags
Retail

How Much For That Vintage Gucci?: An AI system that appraises luxury handbags

Computer vision is helping people resell their used designer handbags. Rebag, a resale company for luxury handbags, watches, and jewelry, launched Clair AI, an app that automatically appraises second-hand bags from brands like Gucci, Hermes, and Prada.

January 13, 20211 min read
How Much For That Vintage Gucci?: An AI system that appraises luxury handbags
Retail

How Much For That Vintage Gucci?: An AI system that appraises luxury handbags

Computer vision is helping people resell their used designer handbags. Rebag, a resale company for luxury handbags, watches, and jewelry, launched Clair AI, an app that automatically appraises second-hand bags from brands like Gucci, Hermes, and Prada.

January 13, 20211 min read
Retailers Adjust to the Pandemic: How Chinese retailers used AI to rebound from Covid-19
Retail

Retailers Adjust to the Pandemic: How Chinese retailers used AI to rebound from Covid-19

Covid-19 wreaked havoc with models that predict retail sales — but China’s biggest annual e-commerce event showed that they’re back in business.

November 18, 20202 min read
Retailers Adjust to the Pandemic: How Chinese retailers used AI to rebound from Covid-19
Retail

Retailers Adjust to the Pandemic: How Chinese retailers used AI to rebound from Covid-19

Covid-19 wreaked havoc with models that predict retail sales — but China’s biggest annual e-commerce event showed that they’re back in business.

November 18, 20202 min read
Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.
Retail

Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.

Marketers are using computer vision to parse customers by skin color and other perceived racial characteristics. A number of companies are pitching race classification as a way for businesses to understand the buying habits of different groups.

August 26, 20201 min read
Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.
Retail

Race Recognition: Face recognition companies identify people by race.

Marketers are using computer vision to parse customers by skin color and other perceived racial characteristics. A number of companies are pitching race classification as a way for businesses to understand the buying habits of different groups.

August 26, 20201 min read
Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security
Retail

Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security

A major retailer’s AI-powered surveillance program apparently targeted poor people and minorities. Rite-Aid, a U.S.-based pharmacy chain, installed face recognition systems in many of its New York and Los Angeles stores.

August 12, 20201 min read
Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security
Retail

Retail Surveillance Revealed: How Rite-Aid used face recognition for security

A major retailer’s AI-powered surveillance program apparently targeted poor people and minorities. Rite-Aid, a U.S.-based pharmacy chain, installed face recognition systems in many of its New York and Los Angeles stores.

August 12, 20201 min read
Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.
Retail

Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.

Need a wardrobe upgrade? You could ask the fashion mavens at Netflix’s Queer Eye — or you could use a new neural network. Researchers at Amazon propose Category-based Subspace Attention Network (CSA-Net) to predict and retrieve compatible garments and accessories that complement one another.

July 22, 20202 min read
Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.
Retail

Which Shoes Go With That Outfit?: An AI with fashion sense assembles outfits.

Need a wardrobe upgrade? You could ask the fashion mavens at Netflix’s Queer Eye — or you could use a new neural network. Researchers at Amazon propose Category-based Subspace Attention Network (CSA-Net) to predict and retrieve compatible garments and accessories that complement one another.

July 22, 20202 min read
That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning
Retail

That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning

Why search for “a cotton dress shirt with button-down collar, breast pockets, barrel cuffs, scooped hem, and tortoise shell buttons in grey” when a photo and the words “that shirt, but grey” will do the trick? A new network understands the image-text combo.

July 15, 20202 min read
That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning
Retail

That Online Boutique, But Smarter: A summary of Amazon's Visiolinguistic Attention Learning

Why search for “a cotton dress shirt with button-down collar, breast pockets, barrel cuffs, scooped hem, and tortoise shell buttons in grey” when a photo and the words “that shirt, but grey” will do the trick? A new network understands the image-text combo.

July 15, 20202 min read

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