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HecticArt

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Oct 19, 2008
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That's what makes em so funny.

I had visited a friend of mine from college a couple of years ago.
It was just after those commercials had started.
We were talking about how well they got everything right.
 

scotchandcigar

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I call bullshit on this SimpliSafe commercial.




Many people have some sort of outdoor camera on their house, and they're picking up all sorts of shit. Cars going by, dogs in the yard, people taking the garbage out, squirrels, deer, turkey, wind, rustling leaves, you name it. The idea that there are SimpliSafe employees sitting in a room, watching a live feed from a single person's house, and responding in real time, is just a lie.

Unless the company is doing really poorly, they have thousands of customers in a given area, and probably multiple cameras at each house. So when all those camera sensors are tripping because Fido is taking a dump, how is the SimpliSafe guy filtering that out, and somehow looking at a full-screen live view of an intrusion in progress? Inquiring minds want to know.
 

scotchandcigar

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I don't know what those are.
It's the precogs from the movie Minority Report. They detect "pre-crime".

they say "Using AI Live Agents". In other words: robots.
What they say is "Using AI alerts, U.S.-based live agents...". The alerts are AI, not the agents.

I was given a free trial of AI alerts for my Ring front-door camera. It told me whether the thing tripping the detector was a dog or person, and it could tell the color of the dog. It once told me I was walking with a dog on a leash, even though there was no leash.

So I guess it uses that to present possible real intrusions to agents, but the whole process would not look like what they're presenting in the commercial.
 

IdRatherBeSkiing

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Oct 11, 2008
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It's the precogs from the movie Minority Report. They detect "pre-crime".


What they say is "Using AI alerts, U.S.-based live agents...". The alerts are AI, not the agents.

I was given a free trial of AI alerts for my Ring front-door camera. It told me whether the thing tripping the detector was a dog or person, and it could tell the color of the dog. It once told me I was walking with a dog on a leash, even though there was no leash.

So I guess it uses that to present possible real intrusions to agents, but the whole process would not look like what they're presenting in the commercial.
I never saw "Minority Report".

Yes what they show is after the AI is done it's work although they show the agent watching from the beginning so likely not quite accurate (unless he is actully a robot).