AI : the boss should be fired, didn't make a single cup of coffee all month
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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In college I worked for a few months at a little coffee shop in a mall and it had two cameras: one in the main area and one in the back storage room. They went to a feed that the owner would watch from his house and if he saw me sitting down or doing something else objectionable, he'd call the store and chew me out. I was eventually fired when they had a re-training for all three of us employees and I didn't smile enough during it, according to the manager
Anyway, all coffee shops need to be unionized or worker co-ops; death to coffee shop management
Nobody wants to work!
I didn't smile enough during it
In North Korea, the authorities punish you for not smiling enough during indoctrination sessions 
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I'm old enough to remember scary propaganda about how the USSR was a surveillance nightmare world where every moment, waking or asleep, was monitored for loyalty and efficiency checking.
And these fucking techbro bootlickers are cheering for this because it's for the benefit of billionaires with pedo islands. 
For what it's worth, this guy is likely lying about the actual capabilities of this system.
Tracking the time the person has spent in view is a legitimate task this software can accomplish (although this was called person/object detection/tracking long before AI was the newest buzzword).
The number of cups the baristas are making? Likely bullshit.
Exactly, tracking time in frame is a pretty standard CV task. Tracking # cups of coffee made would be require more sophistication than any cafe in the world could afford, if it's even possible to do reliably.
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Its crazy that this would be a thing AI would need to do when any half descent accountant could simply measure cups-poured by shift and sift the data for the most productive employees. Even then, the bottleneck in this shop is certainly not the staffers themselves. The work space is tiny and the equipment is antiquated. You're investing god knows how much in AI when you'd be far better off renovating.
You could just track cups via the tills. I don't get it, none of this adds anything at all that doesn't already exist. You already produce a record of transactions per employee via receipts produced in the cash registers.
none of this adds anything at all that doesn't already exist
The last decade of western technological advancement in a nutshell.
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I think I'm about to go back to crime
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The overlay looks fake AF. And the Facebook OP screams egotistical douche.
Not arguing against the reality that something like this can/does exist, but I question the authenticity of the post.
This doesn't look significantly different from the AI I've seen them use inside amazon distribution centers.
They deployed ostensibly to ensure that employees were maintaining Covid 6ft separation, but everyone knew the real reason was to watch for employee gathering that might be union organizing.
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Yeah, nice round numbers, tracking groups as one, there's no way this is real here.
That's not Facebook, it's LinkedIn, and being an egotist is kinda par for the course
These productivity losers don’t understand the appeal of certain places. I frequent some shops specifically to speak to the baristas because I like them
Maybe if they stop chatting with you, you'll leave and be replaced by a more transactional and efficient customer.
Does not compute
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One of the most pernicious parts of this fucking shit is that this collects reams and reams of data, but that data is a rough fit for the actual information they're trying to extract, and it's bound to be reviewed by people who fundamentally have no idea what it really means.
So not only are they actually squeezing every drop of sweat from employees, and using it as an excuse to constantly record people who might try to organize, which is the obvious use- it's also constantly harassing people who are just trying to do the fucking work, labeling them as making mistakes when they aren't.
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This Zybyszek fella gets it. I can't scroll on LinkedIn or I will need to burn things.
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