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Amazon's New 'Echo Look' Camera Has Machine Learning to Help You Make Better Fashion Choices
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Amazon has reached 100% HAL 9000.
I'm sorry Dave, but I can't let you go out like that.
I'm sorry Dave, but I can't let you go out like that.
Spouses often lie and say their better half looks good when they don't just to avoid fights and some people avoid mirrors whenever possible.
I just got an email about this, and after viewing the video (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0186JAEWK?ref_=pe_3052830_235999880_ecg_hdrx_ann_life?enableAutoPlay=1), decided this is the dumbest thing ever to come out of Amazon.
Vanity status symbol?
Vanity status symbol?
Could save millions of marriages. Honey, how do I look? Honest husband, the first outfit! So you like the one that makes me look fat? Or you look great in all of them. So you really do not care what I look like? Yep this could be a guy's BFF!
Could save millions of marriages. Honey, how do I look? Honest husband, the first outfit! So you like the one that makes me look fat? Or you look great in all of them. So you really do not care what I look like? Yep this could be a guy's BFF!
But then all the fat fight back and forth is going to get transferred from the guys to Alexa.
"Alexa, does this dress make me look fat?"
"That dress doesn't look good on you."
"Wait - Alexa, do you mean the dress doesn't look good on me, or I don't look good in this dress?"
"That is not the right dress for you."
"So you mean I look fat?"
"That dress does not work for you. I have several others for you to try."
"Oh Alexa, how could you?!"
Meanwhile, the guy is going to just keep playing Call of Dookie or whatever, and juggle his controller, a beer and a smile.
You do realize the irony in this statement, the "alpha male" image is just as much a crafted image as any other, just has a slower turn over cycle than some others.
The more I think about this product, the more sense it makes. Is it vain to look at yourself in a mirror? A mirror doesn't let you easily see the back of an outfit.
I think the whole "let me take a photo and send it to my friends" bit is a bit nonsensical, but seeing how clothes look on you, getting advice on outfits etc... I wonder if this isn't the first step to an AI product that lets you 'try on' clothes from Amazon, so you can see how you look in them before you buy? Add a couple of lasers, maybe dual lens camera and suddenly it's got a 3D model of you that they can overlay with any garment they sell...
I think the whole "let me take a photo and send it to my friends" bit is a bit nonsensical, but seeing how clothes look on you, getting advice on outfits etc... I wonder if this isn't the first step to an AI product that lets you 'try on' clothes from Amazon, so you can see how you look in them before you buy? Add a couple of lasers, maybe dual lens camera and suddenly it's got a 3D model of you that they can overlay with any garment they sell...
I am so happy I'm 50. There is a certain peace to my existence in knowing I look like a dumpling no matter what I wear. That saves me so much money, time and angst.
Yes also for taking pictures in your birthday suit.
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A mirror, unless it is a smart one cannot change the colour of your clothes or let you swap and match clothes without trying on your whole wardrobe...
We have a similar booth in our shopping centre.
I thought this was a Saturday Night Live skit at first.
People are asking "who uses this thing." I'm sure adults will, but think "every teenage daughter will want one", and you are on the right track. And then, when they grow up, this will seem natural to them.
(AFAIK millennials might love them, too, though it'd be funny if millennial decided this was "too much" for them, as nothing ever seems to much for them, lol).
I guess we are not narcissistic enough as a species??
People are asking "who uses this thing." I'm sure adults will, but think "every teenage daughter will want one", and you are on the right track. And then, when they grow up, this will seem natural to them.
(AFAIK millennials might love them, too, though it'd be funny if millennial decided this was "too much" for them, as nothing ever seems to much for them, lol).
I guess we are not narcissistic enough as a species??
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It always amazing me how may cave dwellers we have on these "Tech" forums.
OMG it's listening to me.
OMG it's looking at me.
Firstly, it's amazing you think you are THAT interesting to anyone.
Hey, you have either a Penis or a Vagina as roughly 50/50 of the population do.
You may pick your nose, fart, scratch your nuts, get drunk.
Sorry, but that's not exactly going to set the world alight.
Can you imagine these people in a future Star Trek and Commander Data?
OMG he can see me, he must be spying, he can hear me, he must be listening, OMG and he can move around.
I will sit here motionless at any time Commander Data is in the room.
Wow, Paranoid much.
OMG it's listening to me.
OMG it's looking at me.
Firstly, it's amazing you think you are THAT interesting to anyone.
Hey, you have either a Penis or a Vagina as roughly 50/50 of the population do.
You may pick your nose, fart, scratch your nuts, get drunk.
Sorry, but that's not exactly going to set the world alight.
Can you imagine these people in a future Star Trek and Commander Data?
OMG he can see me, he must be spying, he can hear me, he must be listening, OMG and he can move around.
I will sit here motionless at any time Commander Data is in the room.
Wow, Paranoid much.
If you're not concerned about a device that is not that hard to hack...well...
I felt the same way most of you felt about this product. But it seems like a good idea after I saw the commerical for it. Women always try on clothes at home and look in the mirror. There is always a lot of decisions to be made before a women goes out of the house. Using technology, she could have better tools to help her decide what to wear.
It's not even so much about vanity, but about overall naivety that using a product like that implies. I know deep learning has progressed quickly in recent years, but fashion is simply way too complex for a neural network to understand in all its details, connotations and the individual contexts. Alexa may tell me my shorts + T-shirt outfit looks good, even though I'm actually going to a tuxedo evening. Fashion is complex, always changing and I have serious doubts deep learning is there yet. So what I assume is that this is just an excuse to collect data at this point.