{"id":67025,"date":"2019-04-26T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67025"},"modified":"2019-04-26T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:25:15","slug":"walmart-unveils-an-ai-powered-store-of-the-future-now-open-to-the-public-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/04\/26\/walmart-unveils-an-ai-powered-store-of-the-future-now-open-to-the-public-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart unveils an AI-powered store of the future, now open to the public [Perez]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/04\/25\/walmart-unveils-an-a-i-powered-store-of-the-future-now-open-to-the-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Walmart unveils an AI-powered store of the future, now open to the public<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from techcrunch.comby Sarah Perez<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/04\/25\/walmart-unveils-an-a-i-powered-store-of-the-future-now-open-to-the-public\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67026\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Walmart-AI-Store-April-2019-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Walmart-AI-Store-April-2019-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Walmart-AI-Store-April-2019-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Walmart-AI-Store-April-2019-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Walmart-AI-Store-April-2019.jpg 1390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Walmart this morning unveiled a new \u201cstore of the future\u201d and test grounds for emerging technologies, including AI-enabled cameras and interactive displays. The store, a working concept called the Intelligent Retail Lab \u2014 or \u201cIRL\u201d for short \u2014 operates out of a Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSimilar to Amazon Go\u2019s convenience stores, the store has a suite of cameras mounted in the ceiling. But unlike Amazon Go, which is a grab-and-go store with smaller square footage, Walmart\u2019s IRL spans 50,000 square feet of retail space and is staffed by more than 100 employees.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe cameras and other sensors in the store pump out 1.6 TB of data per second, or the equivalent of three years\u2019 worth of music, which necessitates a big data center on site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I was pleased to see that 100+ human beings were still employed\/utilized in that store location.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart unveils an AI-powered store of the future, now open to the public &#8212; from techcrunch.comby Sarah Perez Excerpts: Walmart this morning unveiled a new \u201cstore of the future\u201d and test grounds for emerging technologies, including AI-enabled cameras and interactive displays. The store, a working concept called the Intelligent Retail Lab \u2014 or \u201cIRL\u201d for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,174,45,112,298,309,367,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-data-related-items","category-platforms","category-vendors","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67027,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67025\/revisions\/67027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}