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

  • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      9 months ago

      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

      • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
          1·
          9 months ago

          True, you’d think Amazon would have the talent to do it though if they wanted to

    • viralJ@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        we’ve not had them in the UK

        I shopped at an automated Amazon Fresh in Bankside London yesterday…