The Sniffer

Wild Innovations in Retail and the Hidden Cost of Machine Learning

The Sniffer

Show Notes

We are back! Cathi Bond and Nora Young got together (virtually!) to talk future of retail and carbon footprint. Cathi talks about Showfields, a digital/physical hybrid store in New York, and their new Magic Wand app (via PSFK). Nora talks about this article from two Université de Montréal professor/researchers on the 'hidden infrastructure' required for machine learning: the carbon footprint of training machine learning applications on lots of data. Hope you're all well and coping ok!

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