Amazon used the high tech process of having low paid cashiers that are hidden in another country. Amazon sucks so much.
People in India were watching people checkout?! Poorly paid workers watching Westerners consume… this is so grim.
Time to dust off those guillotines.
If folks haven’t yet, what’s it going to take?
Haha, so it was never AI? Just an Indian person getting annoyed at the people trying all kinds of weird tricks to see if they could defeat the ‘AI’ 🤣
So after all that it was just a mechanical turk situation
It did say the workers were labelling the videos, so presumably they were trying to train an AI
Love or hate Amazon, this system would better than the self check out other stores are using.
the system wasn’t as magic as they made it out to be. turns out it was powered by a team of 1,000 people reviewing camera footage in India.
this is probably why they’re killing it.
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Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday.
The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store.
Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.
However, the spokesperson acknowledged these associates validate “a small minority” of shopping visits when AI can’t determine a purchase.
Amazon Fresh, the e-commerce giant’s grocery store first launched in 2007, has just over 40 locations around the United States.
Amazon’s push away from expensive tests like Just Walk Out may be a sign the company is looking to further expand its presence as a supermarket.
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