“Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. 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. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.”

2 Comments

  1. Wait, I thought they had pitched it on being done by AI. The fact that this is how it worked is shady as hell and dishonest.

  2. morriartie

    That means they’re labeling data and in a year or so it will be done by AI, or at least by a smaller human workflow + a new model on AWS Sagemaker

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