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Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Amazon has grocery stores?

[–] MehStrongBadMeh@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

For the sake of completeness, I will point out that Amazon also owns the "Whole Foods" brand of grocery stores. Not particularly relevant to this article, but Amazon indeed has quite a lot of grocery stores as a result.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, in America they own grocery stores under the "Amazon Fresh" brand, some of which were famous for their "Just Walk Out" technology, where you scan on your way in, and then seemingly-magically got charged for everything you bought just by putting it in your trolley and walking out. When they first started out, there were news stories about how people even tried tricking it but still got charged correctly. It was never, until now, revealed how they actually did it, with people believing it was probably done via automated camera detection.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

That's hilarious. AI is just a bunch of people.