Generative AI: Coming soon to a kiosk near you The most talked about technology this year–generative AI, which is behind ChatGPT, BingChat, Google Bard and dozens of other implementations–is likely to be talking right from the speaker of most kiosks quite soon. With some simple limitations to avoid it hallucinating the kiosk into big trouble, GenAI could take… Read More »
Verneek Retail AI Assist Welcome to Verneek our latest Advisory Board member. Verneek’s One Quin provides enterprises with one holistic consumer-facing AI solution to accurately answer personalized questions through voice activation or text anywhere. The Verneek platform is unique in answering specific questions reliably based on dynamic enterprise data that gets automatically augmented with relevant public information. The platform’s… Read More »
Conversational Voice Order AI While conversational AI circa May 2023 is a hot topic and a big tool in the “buzz bag” aka “we plan on doing that”, conversational voice AI has finally reached actual deployments. Estimates and projections are fine but real data is what counts. Meanwhile Google and Microsoft battle for available oxygen in the AI… Read More »
Self Ordering Kiosk AI Assist Interested in AI for your self ordering kiosk? Then the new Clover POS kiosk by Nanonation (and Samsung) is a must read. Included is AI Tools Setup Guide pdf. These AI Enhancements will transform your ordering kiosk experience, from crafting enticing menu descriptions to attracting more users and providing the right upsell suggestions to… Read More »
Next Generation of AI-Powered Drive-Thrus SoundHound AI and Acrelec announced a strategic partnership to bring advanced, voice-enabled drive-thru systems to restaurants worldwide. When we saw the nice Burger King drive-thru demo with Acrelec it was clear that they had gotten it right. There are competitors to Soundhound for sure (Sodaclick e.g.). Acrelec has some nice videos. Not surprisingly,… Read More »
Digital Signage Analytics and AI Analytics Nice case study by ASUS. The case study details how meldCX®, a leader in vision analytics, partnered with ASUS to deploy its AI-powered Viana™ platform in retail environments using ASUS NUC hardware. The goal was to help retailers deliver personalized, data-driven experiences by leveraging real-time insights from vision analytics, which can optimize… Read More »
The Duality of AI — Advice for AI Automation Hard to believe a subject could displace Bitcoin and digital currency as the trendy subject but AI has done that. We are looking at what AI gets right and what it almost gets right. Truly self-driving cars no longer requiring human supervision and widely available are still literally decades… Read More »
22Miles Wins Two InfoComm Awards Every year, Future publications contracts with AV industry experts to evaluate products submitted by manufacturers exhibiting at InfoComm for Best of Show. Our judges are experts in the categories of products we have chosen for them to evaluate and always remain anonymous to the manufacturers. They are your peers, AV/IT managers, directors, engineers, or industry… Read More »
Excerpt from very nice article on Fast Company covering Walmart and its IRL lab stores. Great example of inventory management and fulfillment via AI and cameras By Mark Wilson 5 minute Read When Amazon launched its first Go store in 2018, the public lined up around the block to see the future of retail: a new experience where… Read More »
Original complete article on the Denver Post published 2/15/2019. Support the Denver Post! Updated 3/23/2019. AI Taking Your Order at Drive Thru Kiosk Voice The Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard at 2095 South Broadway is testing artificial intelligence to take drive-through breakfast orders. The artificial intelligence company, Valyant AI based in Denver says their deal marks one… Read More »
As a public techno service here are some of the recently released machine learning devices available. Say “Hello” to Google Coral Edge TPU, Google’s custom ASIC for machine learning has arrived. During Injong Rhee’s keynote at last year’s Google Next conference in San Francisco, Google announced two new upcoming hardware products: a development board and a USB accelerator stick. Both products were… Read More »
Artificial Intelligence Boom in Colorado Great podcast by CPR and Colorado Matters on latest technology iterations. There is also interview with local futurist who speaks to Gig economy. Full article is located here We recommend listening to the podcast for the full details. Excerpts: Artificial Intelligence – Holly, made by Valyant A.I., is a disembodied voice that takes… Read More »
SapientX Announces GPT-4 Powered Talking Characters For Resort Hotels November 6, 2023 – San Francisco – SapientX <https://www.voiceorder.net>, a leading supplier of AI-powered, talking characters for digital signage, today announced the first digital characters, using GPT-4, for use in resort hotel wayfinding, concierge services and food & drink ordering. The life-sized “Wynnie” character will be shown at the… Read More »
AI-in-a-Box Your very own private AI that you can ask questions and get answers, all in a tiny box! The first AI that you can talk to, and that talks back, running locally with no internet connection so your conversations and data are completely secure. No account, setup, or subscription are needed; just plug in the box and… Read More »
AI in Processing Retail Returns Big session at NRF 2024 with KIOSK, Inmar and Lenovo going over the use of AI in processing retail returns. Pretty large decision tree which enables dynamic processing of customers and the the various types of. Shades of gray are now operable parameters so to speak. Video Here is link to video AI… Read More »
Samsung, SoundHound and White Castle Revolutionize Voice AI Drive-Thrus From Samsung White Castle plans to roll out the cutting-edge, interactive menu boards to over 100 drive-thru lanes Samsung Electronics America, Inc., and SoundHound AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global leader in voice artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that they will be working together with White Castle, America’s first… Read More »
Conversational AI Webinar with RTN We participate in several workgroups in Restaurant Technology Group and recently participated in extended “AI Share”. We learned a lot and especially liked the AGOT talk prior to our own. Angela Diffly was the host and she is a super-connected person in the restaurants industry. The Restaurant Technology Network hosted #AI Share Groups in June & August… Read More »
Augmented Reality, which may be a 200 BN business in three years, comes to the iPhone. Leading industry analysts say Apple has already won.
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From detecting gunfire to predicting high-crime areas, artificial intelligence is being applied in crime and criminal justice. In this article w
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New tools for the public. Several of these dovetail with emergency kiosks too.