apparently the plan was to use humans to train an ML system but it never ended up getting good enough to take over
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in reply to @stu's post:
i forgot amazon shops existed. i guess i just assumed they got quietly closed
Struck by the team of over 1000 guys reviewing footage for less than 50 stores. Love the efficiency
call me insane but i feel like there would've been like four easier options for this than "using humans watching on cameras" or "using a AI thingy".
like i dunno
tags on the products you buy?
I was thinking about this and I think part of the reason is that self-checkout already exists in stores, so it wouldn't have gotten them press coverage about how "weird" it is to shop there if you had to stop and tap your bag/items on an NFC tag reader, but I bet another part is that people steal from self-checkout all the time. If you know how the system works, you can figure out how to get around it, but a "magic" system that just knows what you're carrying out of the store and you don't know how, then you can't figure out how to trick it.
there are nfc readers for car parks that work from a few meters away, but you could still fool them using a faraday cage or just busting the tags.
holy smokes I saw a speaker at an Amazon event last year talking about how amazing this technology was, an elegant technological solution making our lives easier, etc
i'd never been to one of these places so i always just assumed it was like, scanning things as you go along and getting it charged to your card when you leave or something. the reality of it being some guys in india watching you on cctv and tallying it up by hand is such a uniquely dystopian and stone age solution to the tech magic sales pitch we got you can't help but laugh at just how absurdly bleak it is
yeah i also assumed it was something like "self-scanning as you go", which according to the article is apparently the backup plan for stores who want to use something like this in the future. Insane that this wasn't the idea from the get-go.
The Trashfuture “what if your robot was just a guy” bit remains undefeated.
"Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."
Oh my god just end me