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How Generative AI Transformed Amazon One

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Lakhdar Nael Tahchi
September 11, 2023

THE BIG INSIGHT

Revolutionizing Palm Recognition: How Generative AI Transformed Amazon One

Amazon offers an alternative to relying on your wallet or phone.

They've created a super accurate neural network trained on artificial hand images, even better than iris scanning. They used generative AI to improve shopping, entertainment, and access convenience before it became trendy. Amazon One's accuracy gets a boost by training on fake palm images, handling different lighting, hand positions, and even Band-Aids. This also saves time through automated image labeling. The system can spot fake hands, achieving 99.9999% accuracy in over 3 million uses, way better than dual iris scans.

Unlike face recognition, Amazon One doesn't know who you are at first, making it great for many uses. It now also works for loyalty programs and age verification, all while keeping your privacy intact by not considering gender or skin color. It only uses palm data for matching with your payment info.

X uses your data

The iconic bluebird social network has updated its privacy policy to... Tell you that they'll be collecting your biometric data as well as your work and education history to train their AI models. Any surprises? No. The race to collect data was accelerated by Google's announcement on this subject a few weeks ago Source

Apple is reportedly spending ‘millions of dollars a day’ training AI

Apple is investing millions of dollars a day in artificial intelligence, according to a new report from The Information. The company is said to be working on several AI models across several teams. According to The Information. A visual intelligence unit is developing an image generation model, and another group is studying multimodal AI, which can recognise and produce images or videos as well as text These models could be used for a variety of purposes. One chatbot is being developed to "interact with customers who use AppleCare"; another would make it easier to automate multi-step tasks with Siri. People involved in its development told The Information that Apple's most advanced LLM, known internally as Ajax GPT, has been trained on "more than 200 billion parameters" and is more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-3.5, the basis of the initial version of ChatGPT that was rolled out last year. This model was originally created for internal use, according to a previous Bloomberg report, and remains relatively locked down within the company. Source

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