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By Jess Sharp, Money teamFrom AI and the latest self-checkout technology to shoplifting and a new Google search tool, industry leaders revealed the secrets of what's next in their business at yesterday's Retail LIVE 2024 event in LondonWe were there and here are four things we learnt...Self-checkouts are already outdated With autonomous stores popping up across the country, one of the topics discussed was the use of self-checkouts – and if they'll soon fail to exist as we know them.
The function builds on existing tech like big language models, which are trained on large amounts of text and learn to predict the next word in a sentence, and creates new text, images, videos and audio. Users will also be able to add questions to the engine as results appear, rather than starting a whole new Google search. 'This is a once-in-a-decade opportunity for you to ensure a competitive edge.
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