Am I the only one who gets to the self checkout and is compelled to finish as soon as humanly possible?
Imagine if there was a speedrun timer on them and a leaderboard
Would make boring everyday life a little more interesting
Am I the only one who gets to the self checkout and is compelled to finish as soon as humanly possible?
Imagine if there was a speedrun timer on them and a leaderboard
Would make boring everyday life a little more interesting
Amazon Go’s (“just walk out”) self checkout gives you an elapsed time on your receipt. There was one next door to my old pre-pandemic office. My coworkers and I would complete to see who could get in and out the fastest. My record was 6 seconds buying a single bottled tea.
Apparently those are being phased out now because they weren’t really automatic, just outsourced to people in india
Yeah, it appears that the system was computer-assisted, not computer-controlled. Amazon tried to “fake it till you make it”, but never made it.
Another L for AI.
Nothing wrong with AI, it’s a tool that’s very good at specific problems
Tech companies just don’t know what is and isn’t a good use case yet
Honestly “track this person’s movements and figure out what they picked up using this huge amount of sensor and camera data” should be a pretty good ML use case, but Amazon doesn’t really have the right technical talent to make that work.
True, you’d think Amazon would have the talent to do it though if they wanted to
Was it really AI powered? I’ve never used one (we’ve not had them in the UK) so I’m genuinely curious. I heard it just had chips in every product, so when you leave the shop through a gate, everything you bought got scanned, and you were charged automatically. But in my description there is no AI in the modern sense of pattern recognition based on vast training data.
I shopped at an automated Amazon Fresh in Bankside London yesterday…
Oh. Ok then, we don’t have them in the UK in the city where I live.