Yo!

Technology.

What is it all about?

If a computer can see as well as a human, it should change everything, really every industry

in the world.

So my thesis was, look, this is going to be as big as the mobile revolution, as big as the internet revolution.

And I've got to be in here on the ground floor.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

I am Danny Fortson, the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.

Thank you for tuning in. I hope you all are doing well. I am myself. I'm recovering from a very nasty cold passed along to me by my three-year-old.

So I've spent the last couple days horizontal trying to recover. But amidst my convalescing, I did get

vertical, or at least I sat up in a chair long

enough to have a super interesting conversation about the future of shopping specifically about

cashierless stores now we have heard all about Amazon Go which these stores that have popped up

in a few cities here and there around the U.S.,

but for most, going into a store, grabbing what you want, and then just walking out is not something that they've experienced.

Well, this week's guest reckons he's about to change all of that.

His name is Jordan Fisher, and he's the founder of

Standard Cognition, which is a startup here in San Francisco, and they have created a system

using cameras, some very clever computer vision algorithms, and lots of legwork behind the scenes

to create a whole library of product images and all that together

to create the first cashier list checkout system that can be implemented in just about any store

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