“AI” checkout was actually powered by 1,000 human video reviewers in India.

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    8 months ago

    The shopping cart that has a POS built-in sounds like what they should’ve gone with all along. I feel like that’s actually a pretty decent idea, and on hearing it I’m kind of surprised that hasn’t been done already.

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    I would assume that “fake it till you make it” does not work in the tech space.

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      What they did makes sense, they tried to train ai model and their target was it will be proficient enough to use just 20-30 people. It is not about faking, they just were feeding data to the model with a plans to reduce workforce with time. But their ai failed.