AI powered grocery stores and Chip and Joanna Gaines. How to use the temporal for the eternal.

This is Jim Denison's daily article for Tuesday, March 5th, 2019. Imagine a day when your grocery

cart will scan and weigh items, alert you to sales, suggest items based on what you've already chosen,

and help locate products in the store. It will then scan your credit card to check out. Here's an even easier

fantasy. You could download a free app, scan a QR code at the store's entrance, grab items

off the shelves, then exit through the turnstiles. By the time you're halfway to your car,

you'll receive a receipt in the app.

Sound like science fiction? It's actually just science.

The Wall Street Journal tells us that AI-powered shopping is already here and come into stores nationwide this year.

Here's another fiction-de-fact story. According to Bloomberg Business Week, robot-driven taxis will soon make travel in a driverless cab much cheaper than owning our

own car. Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft are making personal car ownership less

attractive as well. FedEx is testing autonomous delivery robots that will bring products from

Pizza Hut, Walmart, Walgreens, and other companies to your door. AutoZone, Lowe's, and Target

have also signed on to the program.

An adjunct professor at Stanford School of Medicine has developed an AI-assisted mental

health platform.

Wobot offers flexibility for patients by being available at any hour of the day.

This virtual counselor also offers anonymity that might free patients worried about how

their therapist is evaluating them.

And an unmanned space capsule is docked at the International Space Station.

The SpaceX vessel is carrying a data-collecting test dummy named Ripley,

which will monitor how traveling in the craft may affect humans in the future.

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