> It’s a well known industry “secret” that just walk out shopping (like Amazon Go) is just cheap labor checking you out remotely
Interesting, because this wasn't a well-known "secret" within Amazon.
Interesting, because this wasn't a well-known "secret" within Amazon.
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the setup and said that Amazon staff is asked to help out when the system used in the new Amazon Go store can’t make a determination
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/1/6/14189880/amazon-go...
I work in the industry and the 100% success rate touted by these companies just doesn’t exist in live in person real time inferencing. We will get there one day, but in many cases “magical” computer vision AI has humans verifying and changing AI outputs
Imagine Amazon was flexing the stores being fully automated before “Track Everything Everywhere All At Once” was written
Maybe we need to acclimatize. We all know when a company claims their soda is the tastiest or that their cars will make you cool, it's marketing fluff. Or that packaged food has to have some amount of preservatives. We should just assume that "AI" means "AI system", one that involves humans for software maintenance, taking care of edge-cases, and providing training inputs.